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Glass ceiling | Nicki Moore will become the first woman to serve as Director of Athletics and Physical Education at Cornell starting in January 2023.
New Athletics Director Appointed By ANGELA BUNAY Sun Managing Editor
Nicki Webber Moore is set to become Cornell’s first female Meakem Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education when she begins the position in January 2023. With Moore’s appointment, Cornell joins four other Ivy league universities with female athletic directors. Brown University, Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University currently have
female athletic directors. “I am very proud to be named as Cornell’s first woman A.D. [athletic director] during this 50th anniversary year of Title IX [a 1972 law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally funded schools],” Moore said. “It’s a step that is aligned closely with the founders’ original ‘any person, any study’ vision for the University.” Moore’s appointment comes after the retirement of previous athletic director Andy Noel, who served See ATHLETICS page 3
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Reduced hours | Students enjoy skating at Lynah Rink during its open hours on Nov. 29.
Lynah Rink Reduces Public Skating By GABRIELLA PACITTO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
Despite the creation of a petition to increase open skate times during the weekends and after school hours, Lynah Rink has recently reduced public skating hours. Since the publication of the petition for more hours, the Rink’s hours have steadily decreased. Lynah hosts public skating exclusively on the weekdays, for just one hour per day. In the past six weeks, Lynah has averaged three hours for open skating across three days a week, usually around noon, when many students are in class. Within the same period, only two weeks had recorded four hours of public skate time. In an interview with The Sun, Anita Brenner, deputy director of Athletics for Intercollegiate Athletics
and Senior Woman administrator, commented in late October that Lynah Rink was working to implement public times on Sunday once proper staffing was available. At the time of publication, Sunday’s open skating hours have yet to be put into effect. According to Brenner, intramural ice hockey has no plans to return at this time due to issues with securing finances and dependency on human resources. To continue reading this story, please visit cornellsun.com. Gabriella Pacitto can be reached at gpacitto@cornellsun.com.
No car, tough luck | Trader Joe's on Feb. 19, 2021. Students without a car on campus need to travel far to grocery shop. By JONATHAN MONG Sun Staff Writer
Cornell is well-integrated into the Ithaca community, with Collegetown within walking distance and the Ithaca Commons and commercial zones a bus ride away. Despite this, many students on campus cite a lack of convenient and affordable grocery options near campus — and the ensuing high costs. Students on campus can find Anabel’s Grocery, located in Anabel Taylor Hall, which offers locally sourced, fresh produce “at or below Wegmans prices,” according to their website. However, the student-run grocery store has limited purchasing power and therefore cannot provide the fullest selection of food. Instead, they offer mostly plant-based whole foods, as well as a subscription service for cookware, citing a lack of fresh food in a college diet. Aside from Anabel’s, there are two Aldi locations, a Wegmans location, a Trader Joe’s location, a Tops location and two GreenStar locations in Ithaca. However, with the exception of the Collegetown GreenStar — a small grocery store that exclusively sells organic food, which comes at higher rates than non-organic options — there is no grocery store within reasonable walking distance near campus for the many students in Ithaca without cars. According to Google Maps, the nearest grocery store from campus by bus is Tops, accessible by TCAT’s Route 30, which has been experiencing service cuts due to staffing shortages
and supply chain issues, as well as taking detours due to the repaving of College Avenue, resulting in the new route not serving the heart of Collegetown. Traveling to Wegmans or Trader Joe’s by public transit requires taking the Route 15 bus, which only runs once an hour on weekdays; according to Google Maps, the fastest route to Wegmans still takes roughly half an hour. The price of groceries in Ithaca is 0.8 percent higher than New York State’s average and 4.6 percent higher than the national average, even though BestPlaces.net considers Ithaca’s total cost of living to be 1.6 percent below the national average and 23.1 percent less than New York State’s average. New York State’s average prices also take into account the extreme outlier of New York City, which is significantly pricier than both the rest of New York State and the country. According to the results from a survey conducted by Basic Needs Coalition — a student-run organization advocating for greater access to basic necessities at Cornell — one-third of Cornell students have difficulty accessing food. Katie Go ’22, an employee at Anabel’s Grocery, said that food access was difficult for her without a car. To continue reading this story, please visit cornellsun.com. Jonathan Mong can be reached at jmong@cornellsun.com.