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February 5, 2001

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Wrestlers Notch Another Ivy Win

By ryan | February 5, 2001

The Cornell wrestling team (4-1-1, 2-0 Ivy) continued its dominance of the Ivy League with a win over Columbia yesterday at the Levien Gymnasium in New York City.

The 32-10 victory marks the sixth straight Ivy win for the Red, and second this season. Cornell also wrestled a dual meet against Hofstra later in the day, losing to the 19th-ranked team in the country, 23-12.

The Red took seven of its 10 matches against the Lions en route to the win. Despite sophomore Buck McLamb recording a fall at the heavyweight level to open the match, Cornell trailed 7-6 after three matches.

Sophomore Tom Waldron then fired up the squad by notching his own fall at 141 pounds.

Junior Gabe Webster picked up a 9-3 win over Erik Norgaard, who had defeated Webster earlier this season at the New York State Championships. Senior tri-captain Leo Urbinelli followed up with a major decision at 157 pounds.

Columbia’s Derek Nagy eked out a narrow 6-4 win over Alex Berman (165 pounds), but the Red’s Scott Roth won by forfeit, and seniors Rich DeSoto and tri-captain Corey Anderson finished out the meet with victories.

Cornell then got on the bus to Hempstead, N.Y., to take on wrestling powerhouse Hofstra. McLamb rounded out a torrid weekend by opening the match with a pin, but aside from him, Urbinelli, and Anderson, the Red had difficulty taking matches from the Pride.

Injured Squad

The split was a considerably impressive showing, taking into account the injuries that beset the Red troops.

Junior tri-captain Clint Wattenberg missed the weekend’s action with a bad knee, while senior Jim Stanec was sidelined after ear surgery. Senior Sean Doyle and junior Sean Wing also spent their weekend recovering. All four wrestled in the Red’s win over defending Ivy champ Penn a week ago.

The Red’s focus now turns to the centerpiece of the Ancient Eight slate. Next weekend Cornell travels to New England, where it will take on Brown and Harvard on February 9 and 10, respectively. A sweep against the Bears and Crimson would leave the Red in good position to win the Ivy League crown this winter.

Archived article by Alex Fineman

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Give the XFL Another Shot

By ryan February 6, 2001

Did the football suck? Yes. Were the interviews annoying? Yes. Was it a stupid, vapid, ill-fated attempt at making football more interesting? Mmm, well, kind of. But let’s give the XFL another week to decide — it was only the first weekend after all. Had fans not given the NFL more than a week before deciding whether or not to reject it back in 1920, we may never have had the Super Bowl. A whole winter season may have been left naked without any playoffs. Is that even imaginable? Where would the world be without a Super Bowl? Where would we be without football? The H-word comes to mind . . . The first-ever NFL Sunday was pretty wild — uncannily similar to that of the XFL. In 1920, 14 teams had formed an American Professional Football Association (APFA), the direct ancestor to the NFL (in 1922, the league was renamed to NFL). On October 3, 1920, four teams — the Dayton Triangles and Columbus Panhandles, and the Rock Island Independents and Muncie Flyers — together forever changed the face of America’s Sunday afternoons. No longer was the day left to throwing darts at stray cats. There was now something better: football. Dayton and Columbus opened to a defensive struggle as neither team could muster points. The Panhandlers reached the Triangles’ three-yardline, but couldn’t punch the ball in. The crowd spurred its hometown team on as a 30-yard pass from Al Mahrt to Dutch Thiele brought Dayton to the Columbus five-yard line. Unfortunately for the Triangles, the clock expired, and the score hung at 0–0. At this point, the crowd must have had one thought: “Boy, football sucks, when’s baseball start?” And then the fun began. The Triangles gained possession of the ball on their own 35-yard line. In a brilliant display of running, the team sustained a lengthy drive to score the first touchdown of the game. The Triangle defense remained solid in keeping Columbus out of its end zone, and the Dayton special teams put the game away as Frank Bacon fielded a punt and took it to the house to preserve a 14–0 win. Meanwhile, in the later game, a crowd of 3,100 watched Rock Island dismantle Muncie in less time than it took the team to form. Arnie Wyman quickly staked his claim for the league MVP award, scoring three touchdowns with two coming off of blocked punts. In the first quarter alone, Rock Island blocked three of the first four punts, each one resulting in a touchdown — two by Wyman. In the second quarter, Wyman caught a punt and took off like a polar bear in a shopping mall. Blasting through tackle after tackle, he sprinted 86 yards to give the team a 31–0 lead. Muncie was so bad it gave up two touchdowns to the Independents’ scrubs. In the game, the Flyers could pick up only 33 yards on the ground and 13 through the air. The Flyers got only two first downs for the entire game, and one of those came when Rock Island was caught offsides. But then, the image of Wyman completely dominating the field stuck in the crowd’s mind, and they came back the next week. And the week after. And before they knew it, they were glued to the new-fandangled televisions. The seeds for Fox NFL Sunday had been planted. So while you well-deservedly ridicule the XFL for its overdone interviews, pansy no-fair catch punts and not-naked-enough cheerleaders, just hold that image of former Miami Dolphin John Avery racing in and out of defenders for his 64-yard touchdown, and give the guys another chance. Things can change. The NFL did. Archived article by Sumeet Sarin
Cornell Prof Awarded Funds for Research

By ryan February 6, 2001

Prof. George G. Malliaras, materials science and engineering, received a grant for $450,000 over five years, which will allow him to continue his research into the fundamental properties of organic semiconductors. The Faculty Early Career and Development Program for Research is a gift from the National Science Foundation. Malliaras will also be working with both the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., and the Xerox Webster Center. Malliaras explained the research seeks to “develop better semiconductors for use in electronics,” and he will release his findings to the scientific community, as well as the two corporations. Conducted primarily on the Cornell campus, the research will involve both undergraduate and graduate students, with some traveling to San Jose to perform experiments at IBM Almaden. With these research findings, Malliaras declared that, “we could construct T.V. screens that encompass entire walls and equip supermarket items with electronic tags, eliminating check out lines.” To this end, researchers must work on finding more flexible organic semiconductor interfaces. Progress in the field of optoelectronics in recent years produced light emitting diodes, thin film transistors, photodiodes and photorefractives. These devices, in addition to Malliaras’ findings should change the storage, processing and display of information. According to Malliaras’ project summary, the combination of students and faculty on the research team should “create a center of excellence in research and education at Cornell that will benefit not only the field or organic optoelectronics but society at large.” Students are looking forward to participating in the research. “Prof. Malliaras is easy-going, energetic and dynamic. He has lots of new ideas and provides hands-on instruction,” said Yulong Shen grad.Archived article by Ruthie Wahl