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February 9, 2001

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Streaking Red Look for Sweep

By ryan | February 9, 2001

Tenth-ranked Cornell (11-6-4, 9-3-2 ECAC) enters this weekend against Princeton (6-12-3, 5-7-2) and Yale (10-11-0, 6-8-0) with one thought on its mind.

Sweep.

Ask anyone on the team what the goal is for the weekend, and its pretty much unanimous.

“We’ve gotta sweep,” said junior goaltender Matt Underhill, whose 1.75 GAA in ECAC games is a big reason the Big Red is where it is. “We sweep, we’re still in first place — that’s the bottom line.”

Sophomore defenseman Doug Murray echoed Underhill’s sentiments.

“We can’t afford to give up any points to these two teams,” the big Swede said.

A sweep would do a lot more than just give the Red bragging rights. Two wins will keep the Red in its current precarious position atop the ECAC. With only two points separating the top four teams, each game is a critical test.

Despite the relatively low eighth-place rankings of Princeton and Yale, each poses a very real threat to the Red’s supremacy. Each team is scoring three goals per game and each is trying to climb out of a recent funk that has relegated them to an out of the playoff prospect. Princeton has lost nine of its last ten, including a 6-1 loss to Clarkson last weekend. Yale has lost three straight, including being swept by Clarkson and St. Lawrence last weekend.

The Red will need to have a good mentality to win against two teams that are very tough to defeat at home.

“We know that both of these places are tough places to play,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86.

Special teams will be key in both games. While Cornell’s power play is fifth in the nation at a 89.5 percent kill rate, the power play is clicking at an impressive 22.8 percent clip. While the Red has been taking advantage in odd-man situations, Yale and Princeton have each struggled.

Princeton has the conference’s second-worst power play at 17.9 percent and has the ninth-worst penalty kill at only 76.7 percent. That second number could offer a veritable feast for the Cornell power play teams, which have been incredible of late. Especially good has been the line of freshman Ryan Vesce and sophomores Sam Paolini and Stephen B

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Week Focuses on Health

By Inna Bruter February 12, 2001

“C.U. in good health!” was the theme of last week’s Health Awareness Week, which featured an activity each day. Health Awareness Week is an annual student-run event initiated by the Gannett Clinical Volunteer Program. On Monday, Prof. Sandra Steingraber, Center for the Environment, held a fireside chat called “Living Downstream: Connections Between Human Health and the Environment” in the Willard Straight Hall (WSH) Art Gallery. “She spoke about her personal experiences as a young woman diagnosed with bladder cancer, her travels [and] research,” said Harbir Kaur Juj, chair of Health Awareness Week. Steingraber is an internationally recognized expert on environmental links to cancer and had been appointed to President Clinton’s National Action Plan on Breast Cancer, administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Her highly acclaimed book, “Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment” presents cancer as a human rights issue. On Tuesday, a Health Fair was held in the WSH Memorial Room in which various on and off-campus groups provided information on nutrition, stress and other health-related issues. The fair, which was attended by almost 800 people, featured games, free prizes, free food and the presence of the two Cornell Bears. On Wednesday, Jessica Weiner gave a one-woman performance called “Mirror, Mirror” which confronted the stereotypes surrounding eating disorders and self-hatred. The presentation, which drew approximately 400 people to Uris Hall, combined storytelling and personal experiences to address the issues of body image that affect both men and women. It was co-sponsored by the Panhellenic Health Advisory Team, Cornell Fitness Centers (CFC), Community Development and the Cornell Women’s Resource Center. On Thursday, Helen Newman Hall opened its doors to the Cornell Community for the Fitness Jam, sponsored by CFC, which featured various fun and relaxing fitness activities in different rooms. “In Concert” was held on Friday in the Statler Hotel in the memory of Michelle Evans, a Cornell junior who was struck and killed by a TCAT bus last spring. Evan’s family attended the event, where Evan’s father also spoke. The concert was meant to serve “as a means for people who knew her [Michelle] to celebrate her and for people who did not know her to see a glimpse of Michelle’s spirit and strength that can live on long after her death,” said Nadia Robertson ’00, a member of the Gannett Clinical Volunteer Program. The concert featured Prolific Soul, Sabor Latino, After Eight, Bhangra Team, Asian American Playhouse, the Chordials and Cayuga’s Waiters. It was co-sponsored by SHAC and the Mortar Board. Archived article by Inna Bruter
Online Course Enrollment to Undergo Second Trial

By ryan February 12, 2001

An online add/drop system will come one step closer to reality when the second test involving students of an improved CoursEnroll program takes place from 10 p.m. until 11 p.m. tomorrow. Online add/drop would allow students to adjust their course schedule using the Internet without obtaining physical departmental approval. The first student test of the new system occurred on Jan. 29, during which time over 650 students tried to add and drop classes in a test version of CoursEnroll. During the first test, the network load did not reach those levels expected during an online add/drop period, though it did at times create as many program commands as during pre-enrollment periods, according to Christopher Cox, associate university registrar. The average time a student waited to add a class during the first trial was less than one second, and no student had to wait more than two seconds, Cox said. “We did not get near [full] capacity during the last test,” said Mark Mara ’69, director of Integration and Delivery in Cornell Information Technologies (CIT). The University hopes that more students participate in the second test than the first. Though an artificial network load may be added to the second test, “you really can’t simulate 6,000 students using the system,” Mara said. As with the first trial, students will select classes from the Spring 2001 course roster using a version of CoursEnroll that closely resembles last fall’s version. However, their choices will not be retained nor affect their present or future class schedules. Students should also discover that the CoursEnroll trial runs more smoothly than fall pre-enrollment as CIT has improved and increased the number of servers. This will result in faster service for students. “My major issue with it [the old CoursEnroll] is how it would sometimes completely drop your connection after you tried to make some requests, and that it was slow,” Bryan Kressler ’03 said. Another addition to the new CoursEnroll is a queue, which will allow students to wait in an electronic line — instead of losing their connections — when network traffic is jammed. The second test is also expected to avoid some of the difficulties encountered during the first test. Some participants in the first test were unable to enroll in classes because their Personal Identification Numbers, entered during fall’s pre-enrollment period, locked them out of making new course selections. Those students who contacted the CoursEnroll hotline had their accounts manually unlocked and were able to add and drop classes. Another unexpected challenge during the first test was that a webpage, which was designed to provide updated statistics every minute on server load, became inaccessible from an overload of people trying to access it. CIT expects this webpage to remain running during the second test. “It will provide feedback to students about the [network] load,” Mara said. Despite these problems, “we were impressed with how students responded [to these difficulties],” Cox said. He said that all students were still able to update their address information using the test program, thus creating an additional load on the servers. Students who participate in this second trial are once again eligible to win prizes, including gift certificates to local restaurants and the campus store. Participants for the full hour are eligible to win a digital camera. Depending on the results of the second test, CIT may recommend that online add/drop be implemented next fall, according to Mara.Archived article by Peter Lin