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November 21, 2001

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Grapplers Head South

By wpengine | November 21, 2001

The wrestling team will travel down to tobacco road for the Newell-Rubbermaid “Sharpie” Carolina Open on Saturday.

Last week the team won the Body Bar Systems Invitational on home turf. From this event, a couple of potential starters emerged.

Freshman Travis Lee had a solid performance in the 125-pound weight class, as did senior Clint Wattenberg who won his weight class of 184.

Sophomore Alejandro Alvarez had a strong debut at the 133-pound level. Classmate Tom Waldron duplicated the Alvarez showing with another second place finish at the 149-pound weight class.

Junior Gabe Webster had to hold off classmate Andy Tieben for the 157-pound victory. Sophomore Scott Roth was the runner-up in the 165-pound class. Senior co-captain Jim Stanec found the same result at the 174-pound weight class.

These performances led to two first place finishes and six runner-ups and propelled Cornell to the top in claiming the team tournament title.

The Sharpie Open will be the last formal wrestling event that head coach Rob Koll will have to use an evaluation point before picking his top ten wrestlers. On Friday Nov. 30 the Red will travel to sin city, Las Vegas, for the Cliff Keen Invitational. Koll said that he has to trim the roster to the top wrestler in each weight class (for a total of ten) for this large national tournament.

This can only mean one thing for the starters and those looking to overtake their teammates for the top spot. Perform or stay home.

Down in Chapel Hill, several strong teams are likely to show. The host team, North Carolina has been a traditionally powerful team. Koll is also making a return trip home to his alma mater, where he stared for the Tar Heel wrestling program in the late 1980’s.

The Tar Heels just don’t seem to be able to get enough of Koll as they are set to travel to Las Vegas, the next weekend for the Cliff Keen Invitational.

All of the Red wrestlers who had a strong performance last weekend, must repeat their performance if they desire to catch the flight out west. Surely, as Koll returns to his alma mater, he will have his troops fired up and will look to have a good showing in his old stopping grounds.

Archived article by Donald Lee

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Women's Resource Center Pressures Administration

By wpengine November 22, 2001

Kelly Connison, director of the Cornell Women’s Resource Center, is accustomed to moving from place to place. While growing up, her parents served in the Navy, and since graduating from Louisiana State University, Connison had been through Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina before settling at Cornell this semester. Connison will learn on Monday whether her stay in Ithaca lasts beyond June 2002, when Susan H. Murphy ’73, vice president for student and academic services issues a decision on funding Connison’s position with the Women’s Resource Center (CWRC). “You will hear from me Monday,” Murphy said yesterday during an impromptu meeting with Connison and three members of the CWRC advisory board. A month-long campaign to raise awareness about and cultivate support for CWRC culminated yesterday in Murphy’s office when advisory board members Rose Kwok ’02, Olivia Ramirez ’02, Connie Wong ’03 and Connison handed over more than 1,500 cards — signed by students urging the administration to fund the position — to Murphy. The group from the advisory board had tried to contact Murphy earlier in order to meet with her prior to the Monday deadline (and before students would begin leaving from the Thanksgiving break today), but a meeting could not be arranged. Leaving a meeting with Kent Hubbell, dean of students, yesterday to see the group, Murphy commended the organization. “[They] have been busy,” Murphy said. “I give them credit for doing a broad-based advocacy campaign.” “We are going to take [the decision] very seriously,” she said. Since 1998, the CWRC director has had to petition the Student Assembly (S.A.) to retain the position, which some say is integral to the Center’s long-term survival. University administrators are now reviewing the role of the CWRC — which has been operating since the 1970s — to determine whether to fund the director’s salary. Some have been openly critical of that decision-making process for being too closed off from the public. For instance, S.A. President Uzo Asonye ’02 requested a release of the budgets for the Offices of Student and Academic Services and the Dean of Students last week. “None of us has ever met with her (Murphy) before, [and] I think that our input is very important,” Wong said yesterday. Administrators have met with Connison and S.A. representatives, who effectively set the Monday deadline when they recommended that the University cover the CWRC director’s salary. But Wong asserted that Murphy and Hubbell could not make an accurate and informed decision without hearing the perspective of the students who have served on the CWRC advisory board. “We have grown with the Center, and the Center has grown with us,” Wong said. “We give a unique perspective.” After delivering the cards to Murphy, the students expressed optimism that they will ultimately achieve their objectives for CWRC, but they are preparing for either outcome after Monday’s decision. “I’m kind of disappointed that they haven’t contacted us during the time that they had to think about it,” Kwok said, though pleased with the meeting yesterday morning. The effort to convince the University to assume the CWRC director’s salary began with an e-mail campaign targeting Murphy and Hubbell. The group then moved to gathering letters of support from 33 different student organizations, and supporters across campus started collecting cards from individual students around Nov. 4. The CWRC advisory board will determine what step to take next at its meeting scheduled subsequent to Murphy’s announcement. “Depending on her response Monday, we might have to come up with a fourth step,” Connison said. The board is set to begin planning for spring semester programming, but until they hear from the administration board members are keeping the meeting’s agenda clear.Archived article by Matthew Hirsch
Authorities Probe Student Accident

By wpengine November 22, 2001

City of Ithaca Police (IPD) are still investigating this Monday’s incident that left one Cornell student injured after they were struck my a moving vehicle on North Campus. The incident occurred on Thurston Ave. in front of the Noyes Language Lab. Both the Cornell University and Ithaca Police responded to the scene where witnesses said they saw the victim in the street and the car that allegedly hit her stopped along the road going to her aid. Linda Grace-Kobas, director of the Cornell News Service, finds that while the IPD continue to investigate the logistics of the incident, the student inured was expected to be released from Cayuga Medical Center that night. “[The victim was] expected to be released with a broken ankle,” Kobas said. Although investigators could not comment further about the case, Kobas notes that they are working to determine the cause of the crash by examining different aspects of the night in question. “We have not heard whether IPD will place any charges on the driver [of the vehicle that struck the student]. [Police said] it was raining heavily and that may have an effect on the outcome,” Kobas added. The News Service hopes to receive more information about the incident during or after the holidays when police should have more information to disclose about the case. Archived article by Carlos Perkins