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Mostly Sunny

Steven Yang ’22 concludes his column, Rewiring Technoculture.

The Sun announces its Male and Female Senior Athletes of the Year.

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Starbucks Union Movement Drive led by baristas behind that first sip feeling

By JIWOOK JUNG Sun Assistant News Editor

On Thursday, April 8, Ithaca became the first city in the United States to unionize all Starbucks locations.

Starbucks workers came victorious on their unionizing efforts in all three Ithaca Starbucks: Meadow Street, the Commons and College Avenue.

“Everyone was absolutely elated,” said Evan Sunshine ’24, who has been with the company part-time as a Barista for two years and currently works at the College Avenue location. “Everyone was jumping, cheering and hugging each other. It was absolute joy in that moment.”

Each store location experienced overwhelming support for unionization from its workers. Meadow Street location voted 13-1 in favor of unionization, the Commons 15-1 and Collegetown 19-1.

Partners Becoming Partners

For many customers and employees, Starbucks has been a progressive and forward thinking company.

The company publicly showed support for Black Lives Matter movement with a $1 million commitment in grants and the LGBTQ+ community by supporting local LGBTQ+ nonprofits.

Starbucks also refers to their employees as “partners” See STARBUCKS page 3

Lacey ’87 Named NYT Managing Editor MING DEMERS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Ukraine | A Ukrainian Cornell student participates in a protest against the ongoing war.

Ukrainian Cornellians Adjust Summer Plans

By DONGMIN SHIN Sun Staff Writer

As classes near their end, many students are preparing to return home and visit family for the summer. However, for many Cornellians from Ukraine, due to the destruction that has erupted from the war back home, this is no longer a possibility.

The last time Andrii

“We’ve been in contact with them, but really no one is safe right now.”

Maryna Mullerman grad Iermolaiev ’23 was back home in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine was last August. He will be in California for an internship, but is unable to renew his student visa.

“My visa is expiring this month, and I cannot renew it because I cannot go home, so I cannot leave the U.S.,” Iermolaiev said. “I’m legally here, but I cannot leave the country because I will not be able to re-enter the U.S.” Iermolaiev also mentioned the impact of the war on his family back home.

“People I know are currently serving in the military [both] in my family and outside of my family,” Iermolaiev said.

“Everybody I know either had to leave the country or had to move to safer places.”

Most of Iermolaiev’s family lived in the southern region of Ukraine, and were forced to move further north to escape the war. In early March, some of his family were forced out of their hometown in Kherson, the first Ukrainian city the Russians seized.

Several other students' families have been forced to leave the country like Ukrainian veterinary student, Maryna Mullerman grad.

“My grandparents live in Ukraine, but due to the war, they have been evacuated to the Netherlands,” Mullerman said.

“My other family is now in Poland, so they’re very close to the border just because they’re really hoping to go back.”

Not everyone could find a safe shelter outside of Ukraine as Mullerman’s distant family members are still in Ukraine.

“We’ve been in contact with them, but really no one is safe right now,” Mullerman said. “It’s not a possibility. So, See UKRAINE page 3

By GABRIELLA PACITTO and SOFIA RUBINSON Sun Assistant Sports Editor and Sun News Editor

When Marc Lacey ’87 stepped into The New York Times office lobby on a spontaneous trip to New York City freshman year of college, security asked him to leave. But before he left, he took a picture in front of the building, shaking hands with friend Eric Lichtblau ’87, vowing to one day work at The New York Times.

Beginning June 14, former Sun editor-in-chief Lacey will continue to honor this vow as one of the newspaper's new managing editors.

As a first-year student at Cornell in 1983, Lacey was initially enrolled in the College of Engineering, unsure of what he wanted to do in life. He decided to join The Cornell Daily Sun on a whim.

“I remember reading The Sun, and I saw an ad for an orientation meeting,” Lacey said. “It caught my attention since I wasn’t

involved in any clubs at the time.”

Lacey began his reporting career by writing stories on professor and guest lectures happening on campus. He transferred to the College of Arts and Sciences to study biology.

Lacey then transitioned to cover the city of Ithaca and the University administration during a tumultuous time. Tuition was increasing and students were protesting

Apartheid in South Africa by setting up a shantytown on the arts quad and taking over Day Hall.

“Although I definitely cared about what was going on in the world, I felt as though my role was to write about it rather than protest myself,” Lacey said. “I always felt as

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THE CORNELL DAILY SUN GUIDE TO SLOPE DAY 2022 !appy " lope#ay $ve!

As per recent tradition, Slope Day will be held the day after classes end to celebrate the end of the academic year.

Free Breakfast

Free breakfast sandwiches and fruit will be served in front of Schwartz Center from 7:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Wristbands

If you have not already obtained your Slope Day wristband, you must pick one up today with a Cornell or government-issued ID. Music

Luna Li and Loud Luxury will open the concert, followed by Aminé.

Weather

Expect a sunny day and hot temperatures.

Schedule: Gates Open: 11 a.m.

Slope Fest On Ho Plaza: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Concert Begins: Noon

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A LISTING OF FREE CAMPUS EVENTS

Today Econometrics Workshop With Jonathan Roth 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Ives Hall 108 Oscar Rene Cornejo: Caminante: Wayfarer 11:15 a.m., Tjaden Hall 324 Cornell Veterinary Medicine Dean’s Alumni Speaker Series With Cherese Sullivan, Department of Veterinary Medicine ’10 Noon - 1 p.m., Virtual Event

Stand Up Comedy Performance With Andrew Fosher 5 p.m., Kennedy Hall, Call Auditorium Jasper Liang, Senior Piano Recital: Cornell University Music 7 p.m., Barnes Hall

Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum on the College Campus: Challenges and Opportunities 10 a.m. - Noon, Virtual Event

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Ukranian Refugee Crisis in Poland With Rep. Tom Malinowski and Adrian Kubicki, Consul General of Poland 11 a.m. - Noon, Virtual Event

Afterlives: Fellows Workshop 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., A.D. White House, Guerlac Room

Biophysics Colloquium: Student Series With Taryn Kay and Gundeep Singh 4 p.m., Clark Hall 701

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Workers Allege Starbucks Union Busting Tactics Mark Lacey ’87 New Managing Editor of The New York Times STARBUCKS

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and metaphorically empties a seat during its board meetings to represent the workers.

“Starbucks always presents itself as being very progressive and caring about the people, especially disadvantaged people,” said Sam Amato, a shift supervisor in Buffalo who has been with the company full-time for more than 12 years. “They made big statements regarding Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQ+ community.”

In fact, when applying for their positions, several workers were initially drawn in by Starbucks’ seemingly progressive stances.

“As a transgender individual, I was drawn to the fact that they had gender affirming healthcare included in their packages for employees,” Sunshine said. “The prestige of them being pro-LGBTQ+, definitely attracted me to the company.”

During the pandemic, however, Starbucks fell short of the expectations and values the company had prided itself on and the conversation for unionization began amongst the workers.

“The national conversation about workers’ rights and pay caught up and left Starbucks behind,” Amato said. “In the 90’s… a lot of the things Starbucks did were ahead of its time at one point. However, the conversation regarding workers’ benefits such as healthcare is so much different today than it was 10 years ago. I do not think Starbucks has been adequately moving forward.”

Additionally, workers claim that Starbucks, on several occasions, placed profits over their employees’s safety and improvement of working conditions.

“During the pandemic, we got to see how the company did not really care about their employees through their constant change in policy with COVID-19,” said Angel Crempa, who had been with the company for two years as shift supervisor in Buffalo. “Those constant changes were mostly made in the aspect of gaining immediate capital rather than protecting its employees.”

Starbucks allegedly fired Crempa in retaliation for joining and engaging in union activities. Crempa’s case has been filed and is now under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board.

The initial rally for unionization began at locations in Buffalo. Several Starbucks employees in Buffalo told The Sun that many aspects of the movement were inspired by a successful union campaign by workers at SPoT Coffee, a local coffee chain headquartered in Buffalo.

“A lot of Starbucks partners here were inspired by public unionization efforts of a local chain,” Amato said.

According to Michael Dolce ’11, an attorney representing Starbucks Workers United, some of the demands being negotiated include better training, an increase in wages, access to better health insurance plans, credit card tips and fixed schedules.

“I really like what the workers came up with on their first proposal,” Dolce said. “Most of their proposals on the table are extremely sensible, [which] makes sense for the longterm viability of the company and would really improve operations in these stores. ” Starbucks Under Allegations

Starbucks is now facing over 120 unfair labor practice charges, according to Dolce. The company is under several major allegations, including the deployment of union busting tactics. The cases are now being investigated and processed by the NLRB. According to the charges against the company in the NLRB cases, Starbucks allegedly switched workers’ schedules around to place undue pressure on the employees, denounced unionization efforts through captive audience meetings, hired new managers to increase management presence in unionized stores and wrongfully terminated workers who joined the union.

“My hours were both cut and switched around. I used to be an opener for a year and a half. It was not until the union drive that I wasn’t –– I was moved to be closer,” Crempa said. “That disrupts your sleep schedule and messes with your mental health — you can’t think straight. It’s a textbook union busting tactic.”

Employees were also required to attend Captive audience meetings in which the workers had to listen to an employers’ presentation, often against the union, according to Alexander Colvin, Kenneth F. Kahn ’69 Dean of Cornell’s International Labor Relations School. Although captive audience meetings are legal under current statutes, Starbucks is under controversy for allegedly using them to forcefully dissuade workers from joining the union.

“The argument against Captive audience meetings is that it’s coercive against the workers,” Colvin said. “The management has the freedom to say their views on unions, but they shouldn’t have the right to coerce the workers to have to listen to those views – It’s inherently coercive.”

According to workers, Starbucks also hired several new managers to increase managerial presence in the unionized store locations.

According to Dolce, once the union campaign went public, each store received one “support manager,” who would monitor worker behavior, usually to prevent talks of unions or unionization. Some locations had six support managers at a time.

“With that much presence, it makes you think twice about wearing a union pin, talking to a coworker about the union, saying the word ‘union’ or really from doing anything,” Dolce said.

Starbucks recently announced upcoming plans to raise pay and improve training for the corporate-owned U.S. store locations.

However, unionized stores and stores in the process of unionization were excluded from these changed benefits.

“We’ve been clear in our belief that we

are better together as partners, without a union between us and that conviction has not changed,” wrote a Starbucks spokesperson in a statement to The Sun. “We are listening and learning from the partners in these stores, as we always do across the country.”

This recent change in benefits, and the withholding of these benefits from unionized workers calls into question its legality, according to labor law experts.

“The timing is extremely suspicious,” said Prof. Risa Lieberwitz, labor law. “To say we won’t give those benefits to the employees, who may be scheduled to have a union election, could be used as retaliation against those employees by withholding the benefits. The timing points to this being retaliatory against the employees for their union activities.”

Movements Throughout the Nation

The Starbucks unionization movement sheds a light onto an industry that traditionally is not unionized, according to labor relations experts.

“Historically, we have not seen a lot of organizing at Starbucks or similar types of retail stores,” Colvin said. “This industry does not have much union representation, so this is a big change for this industry.”

Movements towards unionization are spreading nationwide as a result of changes in working conditions brought on by the pandemic and improved public view on unions.

“Certainly during the worst of the pandemic, employees were called ‘essential,’ but they were not being treated with the respect that all workers deserve,” Lieberwitz said.

According to Lieberwitz, the recent public opinion polls show that the view on unions is more positive than it has been in many years.

“The public is seeing that unionization is a very positive alternative for addressing workplace issues,” Lieberwitz said.

Key political figures, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), U.S. Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez (D-N.Y.) and Gov. Phil Murphy (D-N.J.), have publicly endorsed Starbucks unionization efforts. In addition, President Joe Biden (D) has been very clear about his prounion stance.

“It’s an exciting time. There is a lot of activity going on, Starbucks and Amazon being among them,” said Mike Gaston Pearce, former chairman of NLRB who was appointed by President Barack Obama and served for approximately eight years. “This [Biden] administration has demonstrated that it is a strong advocate for workers and workers’ rights to join a union and organize.”

Biden has made pro-union appointments to advance his policy agenda of supporting workers’ rights and unions, including appointing Jennifer Abruzzo to general counsel at the NLRB. To continue reading this article, please visit cornellsun.com.

Jiwook Jung can be reached at jjung@cornellsun.com.

War in Ukraine Disrupts Summer Plans for Ukrainian Cornellians UKRAINE

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whoever is currently within the Ukrainian borders are very much in danger.”

Mullerman plans to stay in Ithaca as a teaching assistant for a veterinary class from June to July.

The rest of the summer, she is planning on going to New York City to volunteer for Razom, a New York-based Ukrainian volunteer organization that is currently collecting and delivering humanitarian aid for those who have been affected by the war in Ukraine.

“The difficulty with the situation is that you never know what is going to happen tomorrow,” Mullerman said.

Nevertheless, she remains

hopeful that she will be able to go back to Europe to deliver supplies to those who are in urgent need.

“There have been volunteers that have been going to Ukraine or to the border delivering things in suitcases,” Mullermand said.

“I’m also hoping to see my grandparents in the Netherlands if I do go to Europe, but that again is all very tentative and the situation is very much in development every day.”

Like Mullerman, Ivan Kosyuk grad, is planning on spending his summer helping those who have been affected by the war.

Kosyuk is from Kyiv, Ukraine and has lived there for most of his life. His entire family is currently in Ukraine, some in Kyiv and others residing in smaller towns

in Ukraine. The last time Kosyuk was home was this past winter.

“I’m in contact with my family, they’re always reachable, they’re always online,” Kosyuk said. “I usually talk to them at least once a week.”

Fortunately, most of his family has been able to remain where they are because the area where they reside in Kyiv has not been affected by the bombings.

“My grandad lives two minutes away from Bucha, so he had to evacuate to my parents’ house,” Kosyuk said. “My parents house is in the outskirts of Kyiv, but it’s in the safe end – it’s a part that’s nowhere near attacks or anything.”

Originally, Kosyuk was planning on working on his own

financial startup for people from Europe and the U.S. to invest in a variety of businesses in Ukraine.

“We were actually ready to launch just a week before the war started. So, my original plan was to get it ready and when I come home to Ukraine during the summer to get it started,” Kosyuk said. “But I’m not going at least until whenever everything ends.”

Due to the war, Kosyuk has shifted gears and found a different way to help those who have been affected by the war.

To continue reading this article, please visit cornellsun.com.

Dongmin Shin can be reached at dshin@cornellsun.com.

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though journalists have an incredibly important role in society just by informing.”

As a junior, Lacey decided to run for the editorial board of The Sun and was elected editor in chief — his first management position.

“I managed more people back then than I ever had in my life, although that is about to change with my new job,” Lacey said. “Finally, as managing editor of The New York Times, I am going to manage more people than I did as a junior and senior at Cornell.”

During his senior year, Lacey had to decide between taking a summer internship at The Washington Post or going to graduate school to study biology.

“I thought, ‘okay, let me give this journalism thing a try,’ so I took the internship,” Lacey said. “I’ve been doing journalism ever since.”

After spending his summer after graduation in Washington, D.C., Lacey got a job at The Buffalo News, and then accepted a two-year temporary job designed for young reporters at The Los Angeles Times.

Lacey was then promoted to a permanent staff position, covering the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the 1994 Northridge earthquake and O.J. Simpson’s freeway chase.

“When O.J. Simpson was on the run in his white bronco, and he drove back to his house and the police were there, there is video of that moment,” Lacey said. “What you don’t see is that behind a bush, I was standing right there. I was sent on assignment to his house with my notebook. I was like, ‘O.J.! O.J.!’”

Lacey then moved to Washington, D.C. to work with the L.A. Times, and was soon hired by The New York Times to report in the capital.

Having dreamt of reporting from overseas, Lacey later became a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, reporting in Kenya for five years and Mexico for four. Reporting abroad came with a unique set of circumstances.

“I’ve been to more war zones than I care to count, interviewed more rebels, soldiers, heard more explosions and seen more casualties than I want to remember,” Lacey said.

In the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Lacey was sent to report on the tragedy.

“When I arrived there in Port-auPrince, there were still many people trapped in the rubble,” Lacey said. “As I was walking along they were looking out, seeing me and calling for me to help them – but there was no way to get them out.”

Through his reporting, Lacey aims to make the reader feel what he is feeling in the moment, standing in the scene of the story.

“The difficult part of journalism is that there’s a lot of heartache and awfulness in the world and journalists have to be there covering it,” Lacey said. “When everybody is fleeing a situation, the reporters are the ones rushing to get in.”

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Sofia Rubinson can be reached at srubinson@cornellsun.com.

Gabriella Pacitto can be reached at gpacitto@cornellsun.com.

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How Can I Live Without You, My Critics?

STEPHEN YANG SUN COLUMNIST

through the comment section on Facebook just to see if I hurt anyone’s feelings. Even seeing a

No, you haven’t heard from me for COURTSY OF CORNELL ARCHITECTURE, ART a while.

AND PLANNING Senior spring has been a weird time; it’s been a premature departure from my routines in the past years, including writing this column.

On one hand, I felt that the column had already run its course. Should I say that I’m quite satisfied with the six-semester ride from noise music as resistance to my yassified self? On the other hand, I simply wasn’t ready for this journey to end. I was terrified that the final chapter of Rewiring Technoculture wouldn’t do jus- “wow” reaction would make me feel weird. I would wonder what tice to my original vision.

This hiatus freed me from the made them decide to put in the hecticness of doing and allowed intentional effort to choose an me to reflect on what has been alternative reaction, as opposed done. It gave me the time, space to the default “like.”

I eventually found my inner and clarity to think. Cornell constantly inspires me to think, peace once I started seeing my but rarely do I get to properly column as a dialectic between think. This pause allowed me to me and my readers, an ongoing move beyond pondering what negotiation of conflicts, tenI have done with my column sions and lessons. I now see and begin thinking about what the past three years as a dialectic that is my column never-endhas done to ing and people. constantly I felt developfortunate ing. This to have the is our room to journey of ruminate on learning, the criticism growing and comand movments I’ve ing forreceived. ward.

My colI hate umn has to admit never been this, but I free of conlove being t rove r s i e s .

People have been offended by a niche influencer on campus. the things I wrote. Even though And it wouldn’t be possible I always knew that was a likely without you, my critics.

I appreciate the moments reaction to my writing, for the longest time, I wasn’t comfort- when people recognize my name or my face and tell me able with that. that they’ve read my articles –– even when tell me they Stephen they don’t like what I said. These Yang moments make me aware that Rewiring my words are Technoculture prompting people to think. Once in a while, When I first started as a my friends will tell me that columnist, I worried so much people who I have never met about the reaction to my col- are talking about my column. umn that merely mulling over Other times, people come up to the thought that some people me at parties and challenge my may not like what I said ter- thoughts. Whether they agree rified me. Every time I pub- with me or not, I appreciate lished an article, I would go them nonetheless for taking

It dawned on me that Rewiring Technoculture is never intended to be complete on its own.

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the time to read my work and reflect on it. It is precisely these moments that bring my writings

own. It was never my intention to define the truth or reality of technoculture. It is your reac-

to life, extending my words into lively dialectics.

It dawned on me that Rewiring Technoculture is never intended to be complete on its

tion that matters. It is your reaction that brings the conversation forward. It is your reaction that shapes Rewiring Technoculture. It is our column, after all.

I owe so much to all of you who continue to inspire me and push me forward. From the musicians in the underground music scene in Ithaca to the Green Dragon baristas that saved a clipping of my “cool kids” article behind the counter, thank you for being part of this journey.

How can I live without you, my critics? I will never say that I have single-handedly rewired technoculture on my own, but I’m so glad to see that this column has sparked a conversation that will last as flashes of thoughts in people’s minds.

Stephen Yang is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at sy364@cornell.edu. This is the final installment of his column Rewiring Technoculture.

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A Beautiful Sunset THIS ISSUE MARKS THE END, of another semester at Cornell, and we mark the end of Sun print issues until August.

As our writers, editors and designers head into final exams, we bid adieu to long days chasing stories and late nights of layout. We look forward to a well-deserved break and look back on all we’ve accomplished this semester.

The Sun’s 140th editorial board has grown into a creative, curious and confident group, defined by ambitious projects and a strong dedication to community. We’ve come a long way from our first nights grappling with InDesign and learning the ropes of new editorial positions. This semester, we’ve printed 29 papers, published hundreds of articles across six sections and developed special project teams across multiple platforms. We’re proud of all that we’ve accomplished, and we plan to build upon this work over the next two-thirds of our tenure as editors.

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Sundoku

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Puzzle 1880

TOXICOLOGY

Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki/ Sudoku)

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SUN SENIOR FEMALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

TUESDAY MAY 10, 2022

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SUN SENIOR MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

Goalie Browning’s Defense Essential to Cornell Success

By RUTH ABRAHAM

During the season, she was named National Goalie of the Month and ECAC Hockey’s Goalie of the Month. She was Lindsay Browning’s time on the Hill can also named ECAC Goalie of the Week four be defined in many ways, but one in partic- times, out of 14 regular-season weeks. Her ular, is record-breaking. At Cornell, where 12 shutouts, 28 wins, and .894 winning ice hockey has been such a strong program, percentage all shattered Cornell’s single-seaBrowning has changed the game and has her son records. name inscribed in most of the record books.

She finished the season with a goals “She has been one of the greatest goalten- against average of 0.91, which ranked fourth ders ever to play at Cornell in our 50 year on Cornell’s single-season record list and a history,” said Head Coach Doug Derraugh save percentage of 0.952, breaking the Red’s ’91. single-season record.

Browning began hockey Browning was also as a young girl. Her mom named as a top-10 finalBrowning’s shortened and sister played, and loved ist for the Patty Kazmaier career was enough for the sport since she stepped Award, an award given her to write her name on the ice. She never to the top female college planned on playing college in the Cornell record ice hockey player in the hockey–in fact she quit right books. Her 12 shutouts United States. She also was after high school. But plans named Ivy League Player in her junior season changed, and, as she likes to of the Year and earned Allwere good to set a put it, she came “crawling American honors, becoming single-season back” to Coach Derraugh. the first Cornell goalie ever Browning’s first two to be named All-American. program record. years playing for the Red Beyond individuwere pretty uneventful. al accomplishments, She did not see much action and was in Browning was crucial in leading the Red the shadows of star goaltender Marlène to one of the best seasons to date. From Boissonnault ’19. For any athlete, that could November 30, 2019 to March 7, 2020, be tough, sitting on the bench and watching Browning backstopped the Red to an someone else play, but for Browning, that unbeaten streak of 22 games. Cornell only was not the case. lost one game on home ice and never lost “I was just so happy to be there, happy an in-conference game, becoming the first to be on a team of really great people and time in program history that the team went really great coaches,” Browning said. “So it undefeated in the ECAC. The Red also was mostly about, like I’m here to uplift my went undefeated in the Ivy League regular teammates and do whatever I can to help season, easily securing its 15th Ivy League them and in the process, make myself bet- Championship. Cornell had made it all the ter…when the time comes, I will be ready.” way to the ECAC Championship game And when the time came, she was ready. when it was upset in overtime by Princeton.

By her junior year, Boissonnault had The team had also earned a spot in the graduated, leaving a spot open for the start- NCAA women’s ice hockey tournament ing goaltender. Browning started in all 33 as the No. 1 seed, however, COVID hit, games of the season and proved that she canceling the rest of the season. truly belonged by becoming the first goalie To continue reading this article, please to open the season with three-straight shutvisit cornellsun.com. outs. From only starting in a total of eight games in her first two seasons, Browning had led the nation in virtually every single Ruth Abraham can be reached at rabraham@cornellsun.com. goaltending stat.

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HANNAH ROSENBERG / SUN SENIOR EDITOR

Records | Women’s ice hockey goaltender Lindsay Browning has broken numerous Cornell records that have been held since the early 1920s.

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Accolades | John Piatelli has been named a top-10 finalist for the Tewaaraton Award.

Men’s Lacrosse Piatelli Top-3 in Nation in Goals

By RUTH ABRAHAM

hat tricks and led the team in goals with a career-high of 45.

In 2020, for his junior season, he helped Nearly five years in the making, senior lead the Red start the season on a fiveattacker John Piatelli wraps up his time here game winning streak before the season as one of the greatest lacrosse players to play was cut short due to the pandemic. In for the Red. A two-time captain, Piatelli has those five games, Piatelli had accumulated gotten nearly every award, shattering every a team-leading 20 goals and was ranked record. second in the Ivy League and fourth in all “He’s a rock star for us. He’s been a great of Division 1 lacrosse in goals per game. leader for us…[and] a steady presence for After two great seasons, he finally got some us on the field,” said Head Coach Connor recognition for his skill and athletic prowess.

Buczek ’15. “Through his hard work and He was named an Inside Lacrosse/Maverik perseverance, he’s turned himself into one Media Honorable Mention All-American of the best college lacrosse players in the and earned a spot on the Final Tewaaraton country.”

Watch List. The Tewaaraton is an annual Coming from a family of lacrosse players, award for the most outstanding college the Massachusetts-native was not always sure lacrosse player, it is considered the equivalent that college lacrosse would of the Heisman Trophy for be for him. His father was “Through his hard work college football. The watchan accomplished lacrosse list highlights early conand perserverance, player at Springfield College tenders of the Tewaaraton and earned All-American he’s turned himself into Award. honors, his sister played In the aftermath of the Division 1 lacrosse and his one of the best college unfortunate end to the 2020 younger brother, Brian, lacrosse players in the season, Piatelli was named is a junior on the Cornell captain of the team ahead country.” lacrosse team. of the 2020-2021 season. It A multi-sport athlete was a test of his leadership as Connor Buczek ’15 in high school, Piatelli was the looming question was, never aiming for Division 1. how do you be a captain if He just enjoyed playing lacrosse and wanted there are no games to be played? to keep playing until he could no longer.

“How you lead and how you manage a But after some record-setting seasons in high group without a lot of the things that they’re school, he drew the attention of top schools accustomed to is a challenge. There’s no – Cornell included. playbook, there’s no one you’ve ever seen When Piatelli arrived on East Hill, he done it before,” Buczek said. immediately saw action as he played in all These were all uncharted waters as in the 18 games of his freshman season, with starts nearly 50 years of Cornell lacrosse, no capin six. He was named Ivy League Rookie of tain had to endure what Piatelli experienced. the Week on February 27 and ranked fifth “As a captain…I was focusing on just on the team in assists and seventh in goals trying to keep the unity of the group, trying and points. For someone who was not even to stay connected through that time period, sure he would make it to Division 1, he was through zoom, FaceTimes, whatever it may making a big impact on an already stacked be. But try to stay connected so we didn’t Cornell lacrosse team and on one of the best lose that bond and the culture we have, even attack units in the country. through a period of not playing.”

In his sophomore year, Piatelli was To continue reading this article, please named Honorable Mention All-Ivy and ended the season ranked in the top 25 in the visit cornellsun.com. nation in individual man-up goals, goals per game, shooting percentage and points per Ruth Abraham can be reached at game. He also registered a team-leading 10 rabraham@cornellsun.com.

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