By wpengine January 31, 2003
Harvard and Brown, watch out. The men’s track team — the deepest and most talented squad in recent years — is firing on all cylinders and ready to capture its first Ivy League victories of the season. As the Red heads to Boston this weekend to face the Crimson and the Bears, coaches and athletes alike feel confident that the team will return to Ithaca victorious. Predicting tough competition but nonetheless optimistic about winning the meet, head coach Nathan Taylor said, “Both teams will give us a run for our money, and each team will bring three or four really outstanding runners, but neither has the kind of depth we do.” Junior distance runner Jason Hart also predicted a win. “We’re a really strong dual meet team because we have excellent guys at the top and two or three guys right behind them who can score big points,” he said. “In the past, everything had to go right for us to win, but now we’re so deep — probably the deepest I’ve ever seen — and all those points add up.” Hart, along with sophomores Brian Eremita and Kenan Goggins, and juniors Aldo Gonzalez, Mike Nanaszko, and Rahim Wooley have won or placed highly in their races all year and will be the top runners for the Red this weekend. Supporting them are numerous others, particularly middle distance runners, who can make a big impact on the final team scores. Throwers will also look to score big for the Red. Sophomore Zach Beadle, junior Giles Longley-Cook, and seniors Brett Coffing and Derek Kingrey have virtually eliminated their competition all season long. Of his throwers Taylor said, “These guys will be dominant. They’re real workhorses and the best in the Ivies right now. Without them, the team would be at a real disadvantage.” Despite the strong outlook, Harvard and Brown will still keep this contest close. Harvard, in particular, has two nationally ranked runners. Sophomore middle distance runner James Kelly was a Heps champion as a freshmen, and senior Christopher Lambert is a national contender in short sprints. “These are two of the best runners in the world,” said Taylor, “but I don’t even know if they will compete because they’re just getting off exams this week.” Archived article by Everett Hullverson
By wpengine January 31, 2003
After a one-year organizational break, the 22nd annual student-run Health Awareness Week (HAW) resumed this year with campuswide events featuring over 15 programs and a variety of health-related activities. This year’s HAW, under the new direction of Cornell Fitness Centers (CFC), was the “most comprehensive and diverse” program in the event’s history, bringing together groups from all over campus for the purpose of “encouraging healthy living in the University setting,” according to Barry Le Vine ’04, CFC outreach coordinator and director of HAW. In the past, the HAW’s program was limited to sexual health awareness, which Le Vine said he felt was too narrow in scope. “The importance of HAW is that better-educated individuals will hopefully be able to make more informed decisions about their own health care,” said Bert Adams, fitness coordinator for CFC. “It empowers the individual and allows them to be responsible for themselves,” she added. With the goal of reaching as many students as possible, Le Vine put together a diverse program to give students and community members the resources for building healthy lifestyles. “Whatever your interests may be, this program has something for you,” Le Vine said. Over the course of this past week, HAW featured a variety of events that covered nine different health areas, including exercise, nutrition, wellness and fitness as well as public, occupational, mental and sexual health. Starting off the week’s events, the Health Fair brought over 2,000 people to the Memorial Room of the Straight with demonstrations, health screenings and over 50 information booths from various campus and community health and wellness services. “This year’s health fair took place over two days, Monday and Wednesday, instead of just one, offering more opportunities for both students and service groups to get together,” Adams said. “We hope that students are left with a better sense of health awareness and understanding of healthy lifestyles because health is something crucial for everyone, not just people who are nutritionists or premeds,” said Melissa Wei ’04, co-president of the Student Health Alliance at Cornell (SHAC), which sponsored the Health Fair. The First Annual HAW Activities Night, held on Monday, featured a lecture on body image by international supermodel Magali Amadei at Uris Auditorium. The activities also included a demonstration on cooking healthy dinners, a stress management and yoga workshop, and a fitness class demonstration. Claire Mysko, administrative director of the American Anorexia Bulimia Association, also spoke Monday with Amadei, discussing her advocacy work with the media and the fashion industry. On Wednesday, Prof. Robert Hsiung, clinical psychiatry, University of Chicago, presented a lecture titled “The Internet: Friend or Foe of Student Mental Health?” in the Biotech Building about health-related resources on the Internet. Hsiung discussed “whether [the Internet] can act as a substitute for real medical treatment,” Le Vine said. The presentation included a videoconferencing demonstration to show the clinical potential of the Internet and was followed by a reception. “It has been enjoyable to see so many people taking advantage of the scheduled events up to now,” Adams said. Last night, Henry Heimlich med ’43, president of the Heimlich Institute and inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver, gave a keynote address in Call Auditorium titled “Correcting Medical Mistakes that Cause Needless Deaths.” Referring to Heimlich, Le Vine said, “People only know him as a name, and I wanted students to know him as a person.” Le Vine coordinated the funding and support for the event with the assistance of over 135 student and faculty volunteers and over 34 campus, local and national sponsors to expand this year’s program. HAW concludes today with a fundraiser show at Bailey Hall featuring select a capella groups and dance ensembles for the benefit of the Ithaca Youth Bureau. A free dance will be held after the benefit concert at Trillium.Archived article by Janet Liao