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By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun
Exploring a Sea of Glass: a Multi-Media Exhibit Featuring Works of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
8 a m - 5 p m , Mann Library
Anarchy in the Archives
9 a m - 5 p m , Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Olin Library
Specialized Metabolism Using Multi-Omic Strategies
Prison as Prologue: Intergenerational Parental Incarceration Effects in the Disunited States of America
- 1:30 p m , G08 Uris Hall
Islam in Asia: Diversity in Past and Present Noon - 9 p m , Kroch Library, Olin Library
Remote Sensing of Global Change Ecology: Vegetation Response to Climate Variability and Ehange 12:20 p m , A106 Corson/Mudd Hall
Arts & Sciences Curriculum Forum 3:30 - 5:30 p m , KG70 Rhodes Rawlings Auditorium Member of a Lucky Generation
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Escaping the Ordinary: Artistic Imagination In Early Modern Prints 10
m - 5 p m , Johnson Museum of Art
Identity Crisis: Reflections on Public and Private Life In Contemporary Javanese Photography 10 a m - 5 p m , Johnson Museum of Art
The War to End All Wars: Artists and World War I 10 a m - 5 p m , Johnson Museum of Art
Continuing the Dream: The Significance of Modern Political Activism & Social Justice 4 - 6 p m , ASRC Multipurpose Room, Africana Studies and Research Center
Identity in Indonesian art | An exhibition at the Johnson Museum will feature the recent emergence of photography as an art form in Java, Indonesia
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15 Cornellians Named to Forbes 30 Under 30
Law & Policy
Svante Myrick’s ’09 placement on 30 Under 30 follows an election cycle that put him in the national spotlight As the mayor of the city of Ithaca, he campaigned for Hillary Clinton and was recently named as Director of Youth Leadership Programs at People for the American Way a liberal think-tank As mayor, Myrick closed a $3 million deficit that he inherited and earned resounding support from Ithacans, winning 89 percent of the vote in his reelection in 2016 He also attracted controversy with his supervised heroin injection facility proposal last year In response to his national fame, Myrick has stated that he remains committed to his job as mayor
Marketing & Advertising
A Cornell drop out and former Sun Arts and Entertainment writer, Aniq Rahman ’09 is now president of Moat, a London analytics and intelligence company focused on digital advertising The company raised $67 5 million in capital and has approximately 230 employees Before Moat, Rahman was CEO of Instinctiv, a company that was acquired by SoundCloud in 2012
Enterprise Technology
Healthcare
Originally a humanities major at Wellesley College, Charlotte Kiang M Eng ’16 gained an affinity for engineering as a NASA intern Upon graduating college, Kiang pivoted to science and enrolled at International Space University She then pursued a M Eng at Cornell, where she was also a research assistant at the bioastronautics and human performance lab She is now a mission integration engineer at SpaceX
Currently a M D -Ph D student at Weill Cornell Medical College’s tri-institution program, Kevin O’Rourke grad focuses his research on understanding colorectal cancer In 2015, he spent the fall semester at Cornell Tech and also published a paper in Cell demonstrating that a specific gene causes gene colon cancer in mice His work was deemed the top discover y of the year by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he currently works
Healthcare
Healthcare
Gabriel Otte ’11 is CEO and cofounder of Freenome, a company that has developed a blood test to screen for multiple types of cancer by looking for changes in DNA fragments over time, according to Forbes As a chemistry major, Otte researched microvascular diseases and Alzheimer’s disease at Cornell
After graduating from Cornell with a B S in Applied Economics and Management, Matthew De Silva ’11 worked as an analyst in the finance industry However, when his father was diagnosed with a brain tumor, De Silva raised $7 million dollars and founded Notable Labs in 2014 Oncologists can send tumor samples to the lab, where thousands of drug combinations are tested and results are sent back to physicians within a few days Currently, Notable Labs is exclusively focused on providing personalized medical testing for brain cancer
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A postdoc in molecular biology and genetics, Srilakshmi Raj’s rise has been meteoric As the youngest awardee of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Raj earned a Ph D from Cambridge after earning her B A at Oxford At Cornell, Raj studies variation in the human genome, but she concurrently serves as a visiting scholar at Penn’s genetics department and as an adjunct professor at the Center for Human Genetics in India
Even while he was still at Cornell, Michael Alfaro ’10 was already involved with energy as a participant in the Solar Decathlon an international competition hosted by the U S Department of Energy to build and market a house run exclusively on solar energy After a few years in the finance industry with UBS and Morgan Stanley, Alfaro joined Zimmer Partners, a hedge fund focused on the oil and gas sector; he is now head of exploration and production investing at Zimmer
While at Cornell, Caitlin Strandberg ’10 co-founded Slope Media Group, Cornell’s student internet media group and majored in history Strandberg previously worked with the investment team at Flybridge Capital Partners and joined FirstMark Capital after graduating from Har vard Business School in 2016 As Vice President at FirstMark, she focuses on sourcing new investments as well as supporting the FirstMark platform
With three patents and two Cornell degrees a B S and M Eng his name, Jeremy Blum ’12 has a knack for innovation In 2009, Blum built a robot that could play Guitar Hero with 99 percent accuracy After graduating from Cornell, Blum became a lead electrical systems engineer at GoogleX, a position that involved prototyping on Google Glass Blum maintains a YouTube channel and a blog, where he documented his five years as a Cornellian
Steven Izen’s ’13 journey to become the founder and CEO of Lokai began with a simple message, one which propelled him onto Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Retail and Ecommerce
“Lokahi” in Hawaiian means “unity and to blend opposites ” Adhering to this mantra, Izen’s company aimed to promote balance in people’s lives Its first product was a bracelet made of black and white beads
The white beads contain water from Mount Everest, while the black beads are made of mud from the Dead Sea the highest and lowest points on Earth, respectively Izen said he was inspired by the word to endow his company ’ s name with greater meaning
“When you ’ re happy and successful, you can be humbled because there’s always a lower point,” Izen said of the beads’ symbolic meaning “And when you ’ re sad and down, you have to remember to stay hopeful because there’s always a higher point It’s a mental reminder to stay balanced ”
Lokai said he also aims to lead a philanthropic company Ten percent of Lokai’s profits are donated to charity and, according to the company ’ s website, seven million dollars have already been gifted to charities around the world
“Giving back was always a core belief that my parents ingrained into me, ” Izen said
The founder first conceived of Lokai during his years as an undergraduate at Cornell On vacation between his freshman and sophomore years, he said he received the news that his grandfather had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s
Struggling with personal difficulties, Izen decided to create a product that could help people who were
Alumna Creates Digital Library To Engage Students
By KATHERINE HEANEY Sun Staff Wr ter
As a young college graduate working for Teach for America, Louise Baigelman ’09 was struck by a prevalent problem in low-income schools: students both struggled with reading and dreaded it
As the co-founder of “Story Shares” a digital library that provides age appropriate reading materials to lower level students, aiming to get them excited about literature Baigelman’s efforts have reached students in 44 states and 26 countries, according to Forbes
Baigelman was honored in the Education category of Forbes’ 30 under 30 list, which recognizes innovative and entrepreneurial young leaders in various industries
Baigelman taught English at Kipp Academy in Massachusetts through Teach for America after graduating Cornell, leading the English Language Learner program When she taught reading and writing to middle school students, Baigelman said she noticed that many were only reading at a first or second grade level
“The problem was they were reading at a lower level, so there were no books engaging for their age but readable at their reading level,” Baigelman said “If you are 13 and reading at a first grade level, you don’t want to read Curious George ”
Baigelman said students were often embarrassed, and chose not to read the beginner “baby books” that matched their reading level She called it a struggle to get them excited about reading a problem that led her to create “Story Shares,” a digital hub with two
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Accused Murder’s Mom Seeks Guardianship
By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer
The mother of the Ithaca man accused of fatally shooting a UPS driver in the Ithaca Walmart parking lot requested on Friday the power to make legal decisions for her son and to become his legal guardian
In a sworn petition filed in Tompkins County Supreme Court on Friday morning, Linda Edwards said she is the mother of Justin R Barkley, 38, of Ithaca, and asked the court to let her make decisions in legal matters he is currently facing, handle his medical needs and manage his financial assets
Police say Barkley fatally shot William Schumacher, 52, of Candor, in the chest with a rifle on Dec 8 before driving over the victim in a truck and fleeing to his residence on Dryden Road, beginning an eight-hour standoff with authorities until he ultimately surrendered
Prosecutors charged Barkley with murder in the second degree a class A-1 felony and menacing a police officer or peace officer a class D felony and he is currently being held in Tompkins County Jail without the option for bail
Barkley “is unable to take care of his needs both health, mental, legal and financial affairs,” Edwards wrote, citing two psychiatric examiners who determined that he was unable to understand the court proceedings against him and assist in his own defense
“In discussions with [Barkley], he is unable to understand the nature of the situation or the actual facts/matters that had taken place,” Edwards wrote “He is also totally unable to speak realistically, accurately or coherently about the situation which he faces ”
Edwards requested guardianship of Barkley for an indefinite period of time, no less than a year Parental guardianship of a child ends on the child’s 18th birthday in New York state
Reached by phone Friday evening, Edwards said she had no comment on her request for guardianship Attorney James
Baker, who is representing Barkley in his criminal case, also declined to comment
District Attorney Matthew Van Houten told The Sun that he still expects Barkley to be deemed competent when he is evaluated more thoroughly by different psychiatric examiners
Van Houten also said Edwards’ petition will not affect the criminal case in any way and that she should not be able to make legal decisions for Barkley, regardless of whether he is competent or not
“If [Edwards] is looking to have an influence on the criminal case in other words, put herself in Mr Barkley’s shoes that’s not how it works,” he said “If [Barkley] is not competent to make a decision or to participate in his own defense, there’s a process for that It’s not letting someone else make decisions for him or to step into his shoes ”
Van Houten said Barkley “is able to understand what’s happening and make decisions, he just doesn’t want to, ” and added that he expects Barkley to oppose his mother’s petition, the outcome of which will be determined by a Tompkins County Supreme Court judge
Edwards, in her petition, said she is suitable to act as Barkley’s guardian because she “has been his mother and intimately involved in his life Of all of the available and willing people to carry out this function, she is the most familiar with his needs and assets ”
Barkley’s truck is impounded and he may owe money on a motorcycle, Edwards wrote She is requesting the authority to manage his financial assets and said that he has more than $2,500 in his bank account, although she does not know the exact figure
Syracuse attorney Michael Harris, who is representing Edwards in her petition, could not immediately be reached for comment
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun com
Baigelman ’09 Pursues Passion for Education
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sides: reading and writing
“On the reading side, we offer a digital librar y w i t h c u s t o m c re a t e d books,” Baigelman said “ The content is of interest to teenagers but uses easi-
e r a n d m o re a c c e s s i b l e language ”
The reading platform also includes features like “ text to speak,” so readers can listen to the words they read, and a visual
g l o s s a r y, w h i c h a l l ow s readers to click on a word to see its definition
The writing side provides both teacher and s t u d e n t w r i t e r s w i t h guidelines on how to create stories, design text, add covers and publish their work
“ St o r y Sh a re s ” h a s
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and high school-aged students across the country and internationally Baigelman aims to expand
t h e p l a t f o r m ’ s re a c h s o that teachers have a new tool to improve their students’ reading skills
“ We want to continue building the collection,” Ba i g e l m a n s a i d “ We want to provide a wide range of choices and to reach as many schools and students as we can ”
Ba i g e l m a n s a i d s h e believes her Cornell education helped shape her career path and goals She d o u b l e - m a j o re d i n English and psychology as a n u n d e r g r a d u a t e a n d added that both subjects f a c i l i t a t e d t h e d e v e l o pment of “Stor y Shares ” “Cornell gave me time to explore a liberal arts education and gain a real sense of what I wanted to
do, which was to go into e d u c a t i o n , ” Ba i g e l m a n said “It led me to join Teach for America and gave me the opportunity to explore the field I am in now ”
Baigelman noted that w i t h o u t Te a c h f o r America, she would never have witnessed the problems prevalent within low i n c
dents to be open to the different paths and follow their passion
“Find out what excites you and then find a way to pursue that both in
c o l l e g e a n d i n y o u r career, ” Baigelman said “Start with passion, and then figure it out from there ”
Katherine Heaney can be reached at kheaney@cornellsun com
University Violated Own Policy, Judge Says
By ALISHA GUPTA Sun Staff Writer
District Justice Eugene Faughnan ruled that Cornell’s Title IX Office must “immediately process and investigate” a student’s discrimination complaint against a Title IX investigator in his ruling released Friday afternoon
In a victory for Attorney Alan Sash and his client “John Doe,” Sixth Judicial District Supreme Court Justice Faughnan said delaying the investigation of the discrimination complaint caused Doe to suffer “actual harm ”
Doe’s discrimination complaint alleges that Cornell’s Title IX Coordinator, Sarah Affel, was biased against him when he and another student, identified as Jane Roe, accused each other of sexual assault
When Doe told the Title IX Office that he was filing a complaint against the investigator, he was told “Cornell would not investigate or pursue ” his claim until his previous complaint was resolved
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Faughnan said the decision to defer investigation of the disc r i m i n a t i o n complaint was “arbitrar y and capricious and without a rational basis” and “directly contradicted” Cornell’s Policy 6 4 , which both forbids sex- and gender-based discrimination and provides for expedient hearings when discrimination is alleged
In response to Cornell’s claim that delaying the investigation allowed for a faster ruling on all pending cases, Faughnan said this deferral placed Doe in a “ more vulnerable position ”
The justice said forcing Doe to both pursue his own claim and defend himself “denied [him] the opportunity to have his complaint promptly investigated and adjudicated on its own merits ”
Citing Policy 6 4, Justice Faughnan also said “the more the time that lapses, the more difficult” it is to conduct a proper investigation
In response to Cornell’s claim that it was entitled to the “interpretation of its own rules,” Justice Faughnan said there was “ no provision in Policy 6 4 to defer an investigation,” adding that any such reading had no “rational basis ”
Cornell has been under pressure for its Policy 6 4 guidelines after numerous Title IX investigations were filed by the Department of Education An increasing number of lawsuits have criticized the policy, even after it was revised in August
Alisha Gupta can be reached at agupta@cornellsun com
Izen ’13 Finds Balance in Entrepreneurship
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also suffering
“I thought about the highs and lows of life and thought I could turn it into a brand or a product that people could wear every day,” he said
During his next three years at Cornell, Izen said he worked alone on his company, which launched in June 2013, soon after his graduation
In 2014 and 2015, just a year after Lokai was founded, the company began to take off, according to Izen What began as a college project soon turned into a successful business
“I always believed that Lokai could be extremely successful and become a really large brand,” he said “I just didn’t expect how fast it would grow ”
Izen said customers often share stories of the impact that his products have made on their lives
“That’s why I started Lokai,” he said “What I get really excited about are the people that I get to touch and make a difference in their lives ”
Lokai is not the first company that
Izen founded In high school, Izen started a small woodworking company in high school, where he made custom wood pens and sold them around Boston
“Being an entrepreneur has always been in my blood,” he said
However, Izen said his education at Cornell was integral in the development of his company Likai expressed gratitude for his extracurricular activities, including the track team and the Psi Upsilon fraternity, for making his experience so memorable
“Being challenged and pushed at Cornell has really helped me build myself and my knowledge of how to start a company and I’m thankful for that ”
Addressing the future of Lokai, Izen said he is optimistic and plans to expand the brand by making more products that align with the message of his company
“I hope [my customers] will be able to see a new age of products, live more sustainably, and be better for the world ”
Celine Choo can be reached at cchoo@cornellsun com
Mother knows best | Barkley’s (above) mother wants to regain legal guardianship over her son as he begins his trial
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The New York Times came under fire recently when, in an article about the post-election climate on campuses, they described: “Bias incidents on both sides have been reported A student walking near campus was threatened with being lit on fire because she wore a hijab Other students were accused of being racist for supporting Mr Trump, according to a campuswide message from Mark Schlissel, the university’s president ” By virtue of its organization, the statement seems to imply that being called racist is ‘ as bad’ as a direct death threat Media commentators have noted that this constructs a dangerous false equivalency “Both sides have it bad,” it says, “ we should *all* end this divisiveness and come together in the middle ” Pardon me, but I'll excuse any hijabi for refusing to step even halfway into the fire
In December, two Cornell grads wrote a letter to The Cornell Daily Sun expressing their concern that our unionization effort is causing “divisiveness and emotional distress ” It describes behavior they call “harassment” and “emotional abuse ” I have collected every example they indirectly supply in the letter:
* A “Concerned Graduate Student” asks a dean: “I’ve heard numerous complaints from my graduate student peers that they are ‘harassed’ by union employees at work and at home Is there a way to stop these unwanted visits?”
* Siddarch Chandrasekaran grad was asked, “Do you have a problem with your advisor?” a question he thinks is indicates that “CGSU has a way of presenting their story in a way where they can potentially be polarizing the campus ”
* Teja Bollu grad fears his critiques of the union have been “mischaracterized,” that he and others have been painted as “unconsidered with welfare of their fellow students,” and that union representatives have practiced “emotional blackmail” by purportedly using rhetoric like “if you are not signing this, you don’t care enough about other students ” Hard conversations are unpleasant, and building a local organization takes persistence and convincing Though many graduate students do have problems with their advisers, acknowledging this and reaching out to potential victims is apparently “ too polarizing ”
One might have thought that a University with such a prestigious business school would be more accommodating to “salesmen ” Last year, between July 2015 and April 2016, Cornell's Office of Inclusion & Workforce Diversity recorded 95 bias incidents made by faculty, staff, students, and visitors to Cornell’s campuses Nearly half involve the victim’s race; another quarter their gender We can surely assume that many more incidents have gone unreported Here are some excerpts from the report
* On Nov 3, 2015, the CUPD filed a report to the Reporting Bias System stating that an individual had reported to the Silent Witness Program being verbally attacked and physically assaulted The accused also sent messages via Facebook to the victim over the next day, using a number of slurs and making threats of physical harm
* On March 8, 2016, an individual reported that derogatory depictions of them had been posted in a public department common space, even mentioning the individual’sname The individual cited that this was part of an ongoing series of incidents within the department
* On Dec 1, 2015, a staff member reported that a student had sent an email to inform the staff member of an off-campus incident with another student that involved the police The reporter indicated that another student hadverbally attacked her outside of her apartment, using racial epithets and other derogatory language The individual also began to bang on the common wall in a threatening manner, prompting IPD to be called
* On Dec 2, 2015, a student reported that another student had been targeting the individual and continuously stating that women from a particular racial and ethnic group were “ crazy ” and that interracial marriage between particular races should not be allowed The respondent has also sent a number of text messages to the victim that have been racist in nature
* Tagged as “Physical Attack – Based on Ethnicity”: On Jan 30, 2016 an individual reported being physically attacked at an off-campus location by a group of men The attack was broken up by security guards from an establishment in the vicinity
Cornell students report harassment that is vicious and regular The union has been accused of being annoying salespeople whose arguments appeal to emotion To casually use epithets like “harassment” and “emotional abuse” to describe this is disrespectful to people who [actually experience that abuse It’s sad that some students have had bad union conversations with so many volunteers untrained in activism and outreach, it can be difficult to make a consistent presentation But no example provided has approached the severity of the rhetoric used I’m disappointed in both the letter writers and The Sun for printing such an alarmist piece
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Space Barbarians: Brandon Graham and Simon Roy’s Prophet
BY NATHAN CHAZAN Sun Staff Writer
I’ve been listening to a lot of late ’70s – early ’80s electronic
m u s i c l a t e l y, m o s t l y Eu r o p e a n stuff but not exclusively There’s a quality to this music that I’m ver y fond of, a particular sort of richness The sounds are ver y basic, yet there’s a sense throughout that these are sounds that haven’t been
m a d e b e f o r e , a n d e v e r y t h i n g you ’ re hearing is an all-new discover y for the musician There’s no codified sense of what the music “should” be yet, and the excitement of discovering these
n e w s o u n d s w i t h t h e l i s t e n e r translates into warmth and texture which transcends the cliché many (but not all) of these compositions tend to fall into
There’s a sequence in the final pages of Prophet: Earth War, the concluding stor yline of the now long running space opera series, in which we are presented a series of panels depicting, out of sequence, events in the distant and near past and future beyond the scope of the narrative, finally landing on an image of a starscape captioned with the locations of various fantastic planets and celestial phen o m e n a b o t h f a m i l i a r a n d unknown to the reader The layout of this star map recalls an image from the ver y first issue of the series way back in 2012, in which we are presented an itinerar y of strange future devices The effect of both pages is similar through the simple presentation of unusual phrases and objects collected in the space of a panel, the reader is opened to an uncanny universe where absolutely anyt h i n g c o u l d happen
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artists Brandon
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Si m o n Roy, a continuation of an obscure Rob
comics for a thoughtful, strange and artistic world populated with wonders and oddities What made the book extra special is the care put into the illustration, manned by a team of artistic collaborators with hands-on experience in cartooning that many mainstream comic writers usually lack There’s a sense of personality to Prophet t h
artists become involved with the title where other books would
, Farel Dalr ymple, Grim Wilkins and others informing the path of the stor y under the guidance of Graham’s thumbnail
scripts
Liefeld comic from the ’90s which picks up some thousands of years after that series left off – the continuity of the two works is mostly an affectation The musclebound superhero of the original has aged to the elder leader of a resistance to an “earth empire” spanning the universe whose soldiers are clones of himself However, the first few issues of the book do not make this clear At the start, it’s just a
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y across an alien landscape which is apparently earth
The comic’s premise was novel from the start, mining the raw macho nonsense of ’90s superhero
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comic to pick up
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image that would just be great Key to the sense of infinite possibility that Prophet offers are the constraints placed upon the work It’s a barbarian adventure in s p
Conan,” as Graham put it in an early inter view Like the early elect
, Prophet is a series that functions with a limited tool set, playing bluntly to familiar motifs But like the itinerar y from issue one, these simple themes power you through a vast landscape that grows richer the longer you dwell
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The Red managed to keep pace with the league’s best, and sophomore defenseman
Brendan Smith’s first career goal in the waning minutes of the second propelled the Red to win the clash of nationally-ranked
teams
St Lawrence appeared to have stricken first just 1:41 into the game, but a goalie interference call erased the goal and kept the game scoreless That changed when junior forward Jared Fiegl beat St Lawrence’s Kyle Hayton stick side for his second goal on the season
Senior defenseman Patrick McCarron added a goal of his own about 10 minutes after Fiegl, taking on the role of a forward and leading the rush in transition and tucking one past Hayton with a wrister
The Red knew that Hayton one of the country ’ s premier netminders would present a sizeable challenge to manage a win, but forcing the junior to face 30 shots got the job done
“I was much happier tonight how we came out at the start of the game in the sense of playing with the kind of intensity that we played with on the road,” Schafer said in contrast to Friday
pleasure of Lynah Rink
The trio of goals and senior goalie Mitch Gillam’s 22 saves were enough to push the surging Red over an essential team to beat with playoff implications in the back of the team ’ s mind
“We know every team in our league can win, so we’ve got to be motivated to play hard every night ”
The Saints scored twice in the second to knot up the game, but it was Smith’s goal with 2:42 left in the period that ended the scoring and made the difference for Cornell
Though there were no goals scored in the third period, it was not short of excitement Shot after shot rang off the posts and plenty of post-whistle scrums ensued to the
“We’re looking at the past two or three years now we ’ ve just barely missed the tournament and we ’ re using that to motivate us, ” Yates said after the Clarkson game “We know every team can win in our league, so we ’ ve got to be motivated to play hard every night ” The Red is 10-0-1 in Gillam’s last 11 starts, and will put that unbeaten streak on the line next weekend with a highly-anticipated twogame slate against Harvard and Dartmouth
“We’ve just gotta play every game like it’s our last and like we ’ re playing the number one team in the country, ” Yates added
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CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Fieglmania | Junior forward
Jared Fiegl got the scoring underway Saturday for his second of the year in the Red’s 3-2 win over SLU
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Voorheis records 2000th career save in 5-2 loss against No. 5 St. Lawrence
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d e f i c i t d ow n t o o n e T h e Sa i n t s a n s we re d j u s t u n d e r t w o m i n u t e s
l a t e r, a n d c a p i t a l i ze d a g a i n a f t e r t h e Re d p u l l e d i t s g o a l i e , t o e x t e n d t h e l e a d t o 4 - 1 A f t e r a c o u p l e o f e xc h a n g e d g o a l s b e t we e n t h e Re d a n d t h e Sa i n t s , C o r n e l l u l t i m a t e l y d ro p p e d t h e g a m e , 5 - 2 , h a l t i n g
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t o o o f t e n t o h a ve s u c c e s s a g a i n s t t h e m ”
Du r i n g t h e g a m e o n Sa t u rd a y, Vo o r h e i s re c o rd e d 2 1 s a ve s a n d
b e c a m e t h e s e c o n d p l a ye r i n C o r n e l l w o m e n ’ s h o c k e y h i s t o r y t o re c o rd 2 , 0 0 0 c a re e r s a ve s “ It’s a c o o l s t a t i s t i c t o t h i n k a b o u t , e s p e c i a l l y a s m y C o r n e l l c a re e r i s c o m i n g t o a n e n d , ” Vo o r h e i s s a i d “ I a m ve r y l u c k y t o b e a p a r t o f s u c h a n a m a z i n g p ro g r a m a n d t o h a ve p l a ye d i n s o m a n y g a m e s ove r t h e s e p a s t f o u r ye a r s ” De s p i t e t h e l o s s , t h e Re d re m a i n c o n f i d e n t h e a d i n g i n t o a d d i -
t i o n a l E C AC p l a y “ We k n ow t h a t we s t i l l a re s t a n d i n g i n a g re a t p l a c e i n t h e E C AC
a n d t h e Iv y L e a g u e i f we c o n t i n u e t o w i n g a m e s t h e w a y we h a ve b e e n t h e p a s t f e w we e
The men’s hockey team has only played six homes games this season the fewest in the country
CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
No.14/15 Men Take Three Points From ECAC Foes
By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor
Cornell men ’ s hockey knew the challenge that laid in store With two North County foes both ahead in the standings making the trip south to Lynah, this weekend was pivotal in leapfrogging up the ECAC rankings
In the games against Clarkson (11-10-4, 6-5-2 ECAC) and No 16 St Lawrence (13-7-6, 9-2-3), the No 14/15 Red (12-4-2, 7-2-2) walked away with three points Cornell tied 3-3 against the Golden Knights on Friday and beat the Saints in a 3-2 win the next night
It was an up and down weekend in the eyes of head coach Mike Schafer ’86 Coming back home for the weekend’s first game against Clarkson only the team ’ s fifth game in front of the Lynah Faithful he said he expected his squad to come out energetic, full guns blazing
That was not the case
“We didn’t come with the focus and intensity that you
need to be a great team, ” he said following the tie with Clarkson “I thought we were just an average team tonight ”
To account for that lack of pizzazz,
Cornell students in attendance as a detriment to the team ’ s performance from the get-go
Despite a depleted crowd, the 3-3 tie was not short of excitement The first period wrapped up with things at a
Anthony Angello and Clarkson’s Jordan Boucher left the game knotted up at one apiece at the first break
“I think our crowd our students have to show up, ” he said “We were excited but I saw our players looking up in the crowd and going, ‘Where the hell are the fans? I know not everybody is back but this has been continuing on here To skate out and hear the roar of your student body, there’s no better feeling than it If we ’ re going to carry our title as the best fans in college hockey, we have to be the best fans in college hockey ”
Clarkson struck twice in the second period Boucher again, then Brett Gervais on the power play to put the Red in a 3-1 hole Just when things looked bleak, junior for ward Trevor Yates poked one through the legs of Clarkson goalie Jake Kielly to cut the deficit to one heading into second intermission
When the puck dropped in the third period, Yates needed only 49 seconds to bring the game even on a power play goal
His two goals and a primary assist on the Angello goal give Yates 13 points on the season, equal to his point total in 2015-16 with plenty more hockey left to play Of his 13 points, eight are goals, already outpacing his goal total from last season by two
“I think it helps a lot dropping 10-15 pounds and getting quicker,” Yates said trying to explain his newfound scoring capabilities “But I think the big thing is going to the net and being ready to score ”
Though the Red managed a point-salvaging tie after trailing by two for much of the second period including holding the Golden Knights to just four shots in the third and overtime periods the demeanor in the postgame press room more resembled that of a convincing loss
“We showed stretches where we showed our best hockey working hard and playing our game, ” Yates said “But overall we ’ re not happy with the effort We’re a lot better team than we showed tonight ”
“I told [the team] I’m really disappointed we didn’t go after it,” Schafer added “We want to be a great team, we don’t want to be a good team ”
The very next night, the team had the chance for redemption against the league’s first place St Lawrence, which was missing its leading point getter and goal scorer to injury
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Visiting Top 5 Ranked Rivals, No. 10 Women Split Series
By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer
hockey team came into the weekend looking to extend i
Clarkson and St Lawrence, which both rank top five nationally
The Red (13-6-2, 9-3-2 ECAC) was able to continue the streak to six after a victor y over Clarkson (18-4-4, 12-1-1), but the streak was snapped after a loss to St Lawrence (19-3-2, 11-2-1) the very next day
The No 10 Red came out firing against No 3 Clarkson Friday night, outshooting the Knights 8-3 in the first 10 minutes of the opening period However, Clarkson was able to dial up its own pressure, outshooting the Red 7-0 to finish out the first period, and again outshooting the Red 154 in the second frame
“In the first period, our forecheck was really strong and we were able to control a
lot of the play,” said senior goaltender Paula Voorheis “In the second period, we got into some penalty trouble but our penalty k i l l s w a s a b l e t o minimize key scoring opportunities ”
De s p i t e t h e b a c k - a n d - f o r t h p l a y between the two teams, the game remained scoreless after two periods of play, thanks in part to sophomore goaltender Marlene Boissonnault’s 25 saves through two periods Boissonnault finished the game with
29 saves, a career-high It was also the first time this season that Clarkson was held scoreless through the first two periods of play
“Clarkson was very aggressive and, like us, they kept us to the perimeter when we got the puck into the offensive zone, ” said sophomore forward Pippy Gerace “They limited our quality chances, although we tried our best to funnel pucks to the net from all angles ” After a slow second period, the Red offense had five shots on goal in the first four minutes of the final period, earning a fe w power plays Sophomore defender Micah Hart capitalized on one of the advantaged and opened the game ’ s scoring
The lead did not hold long, as Clarkson came right back four minutes later to tie the game up
The Red was not ready to give up With less than two minutes left to play, Gerace snuck the puck into the net, which held to give the Red a 2-1 victory
The Red looked to ride its momentum as it took on No 5 St Lawrence the next afternoon Cornell came out with another strong start, outshooting the Saints 9-0 in
