Track and Field

Men’s and Women’s Track and Field Teams Place Second in Ivy Heps

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It is not often that you host the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships as the favorites to win over a longtime rival defending its title. Yet, coming into this weekend, this was exactly the case with the Cornell men’s track and field team, competing for a league crown in Barton Hall in Ithaca, looking to knock off a solid Princeton team. But as Sunday began to wind down, it became clear that this storybook ending to the indoor season was not to be. Instead Cornell finished second in the Ivy League with 142 points, trailing only Princeton and its 165 point first place total. The women’s team also finished second, scoring a point total of 123.50 only bested by Harvard’s 136.50.

Full Court Press

Men’s Lacrosse Defeats Hobart in 137th Installment of Rivalry

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The Cornell men’s lacrosse team travelled down to West Palm Beach, Fla. this past weekend to play its annual match against Hobart. The Red came away with 10-8 victory in front of 2,000 fans to extend its winning streak against the Statesmen to 12 straight games. Freshman attack Colton Rupp had two of the Red’s 10 goals in the match. “Since we’re a very young team, it was great getting the win,” Rupp said.

Sports

In First Round Matchup, Women’s Hockey Loses Twice to Clarkson

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A winding season’s journey is in the books for Cornell women’s hockey. The Red (13-14-4, 9-9-4 ECAC) lost the first two games of the best-of-three ECAC quarterfinals to Clarkson (28-3-5, 14-3-5 ECAC). On Friday, the Knights won, 2-0, and on Saturday, 5-2. This year is the first since the 2008-09 season that Cornell is not represented in the ECAC Championship game. Facing a formidable foe on Friday, Cornell got off to a strong start, outshooting Clarkson in the first period.

Arts & Culture

GUEST ROOM | Citizen Kane, 75 Years Later

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The year 1941 saw the release of Citizen Kane. Orson Welles directed, wrote, produced and starred in the film, which has been criticized for its resemblance to the life of the newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The storyline is the quintessential American Dream, perfectly arching a rise and fall for its tragic hero: Charles Foster Kane. Due to its technological advances, its interpretation of the American dream and its emphasis on the gratuitous excess that comes along with power, Kane stands the test of time, even 75 years later. The film follows the ups and downs of fictitious media mogul Charles Foster Kane (Welles) through his rise to power and subsequent loss of everything.

Columns

FORKEN | A Political Revolution: No, Not That One

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As primary season swings into Super Tuesday, business mogul Donald Trump appears poised to collect a massive delegate haul, while Senator Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) remains a thorn in the side of Hillary Clinton. Seemingly able to generate headlines at will, the businessman owes his success to the media coverage that has suffocated rivals, leaving a multitude of establishment figures — Governor Scott Walker (R-Ohio), Governor Chris Christie (R-N.J.), Governor Jeb Bush (R-Fla.), Senator Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), etc. — incapable of gaining traction. Though the “political revolution” Bernie Sanders so fondly mentions seems to have stalled for the moment, the formerly independent Senator from Vermont continues to remain viable and push the Clinton campaign past its comfort zone. How is it possible that two candidates squarely outside the mainstream of presidential politics have been able to continuously thwart detractors and mount a formidable run at the nomination of either party?

Arts & Culture

Imperfect Crime: The People vs. O.J. Simpson

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There is no doubt that The People vs. O.J. Simpson will gain popular traction just by virtue of the nature of its content. Whether it deserves this traction is a valid question; given the interesting cast (Cuba Gooding Jr., David Schwimmer, John Travolta) and its place on a cable channel new to making homemade dramas (FX), it seems that The People vs. O.J. Simpson is predestined to be flawed. While regurgitating a beaten crime story — especially considering the emotional distress the Simpson family must continually face — seems questionable, the show demonstrates how the case has obvious parallels to today’s racial tensions.

Columns

TRUSTEE VIEWPOINT | Lessons From the Ivy Mental Health Conference

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A few weeks ago, I along with nine other Cornellians had the opportunity to travel to the University of Pennsylvania for the first annual Unmasking the Ivy League: A Conference on Mental Health. Through the event we had the chance to learn and collaborate with our Ivy peers and see how we can improve the way that we look at mental health on our own campus. One of the biggest takeaways from the conference for me was understanding the scale of this issue on college campuses.  With the success of Mental Health Awareness week last semester and a number of events that groups like Minds Matter host regularly to create a campus dialogue on the issue amongst diverse communities, we are moving towards a healthier campus. That being said, our current system of mental health care is not without its flaws. An issue that the Cornell delegation brought to the table was the conversation on leaves of absence.

architecture

GUEST ROOM | Cornell’s Architectural Legacy

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Cornell University has a proud tradition of bringing in world-renowned architects to design its signature buildings. This is evident in the fact that Cornell’s campus contains noteworthy works from numerous Pritzker Prize winners. The Pritzker Prize, I should note, is an annually-awarded honor that the world architecture community bestows upon an individual who has made an important contribution to the field of architecture. To put it simply, the Pritzker is to architecture what the Nobel is to peace. It’s a big deal.