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January 24, 2002

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Musical Chairs on Men's Hockey Bench

By wpengine | January 24, 2002

Men’s hockey coach Mike Schafer ’86 inserted junior center Matt McRae on Cornell’s first line, between classmate captain Stephen B

No. 20 Hofstra Looks for Payback Against Wrestling Team

By wpengine January 25, 2002

Cornell wrestling will host No. 20 Hofstra tonight at 7 p.m. in Newman Arena. This is the first time that the Red will be at home this year for a dual meet after traveling all over the country the past few months. Head coach Rob Koll’s troops have touched down in Chicago, Dallas, and Las Vegas for large collegiate invitational tournaments thus far this 2001-02 campaign. The Red is coming into tonight’s dual match off a big victory in the New York State Championships in Oswego, NY. After finishing second to the Red in the overall team standings last weekend, Hofstra will be anxious to exact revenge. But it will have to overcome Cornell’s six New York State Champions. 125-pound freshman and No. 18 Travis Lee, 133-pound sophomore Alejandro Alvarez, 157-pound senior Gabe Webster, 165-pound sophomore Scott Roth, 174-pound senior and No. 10 Jim Stanec, and 184-pound classmate and No. 9 Clint Wattenberg all found the victory podium. Even with a victory over the Pride last weekend, the Red remains unranked and looks to crack the national polls with another victory. In order for that to happen, Koll said, “We need to be consistent.” Consistency is something that the Red will look to obtain with another victory over the Pride. Meanwhile, Hofstra, the 2001 East Coast Wrestling Association Champions, will try to break up this effort with 2 of their own crowned champions from last weekend: 149-pound senior and No. 14 Jason DeBruin and 197-pound freshman and No. 9 Chris Skretkowicz. “I would much rather be on our end,” said Koll when asked about the mental advantage in having just defeated Hofstra. There will be two matches to keep an eye upon. The first will feature Lee and No. 16 sophomore Tom Noto at the 125-pound weight class. At the 197-pound weight class, No. 14 junior Matt Greenberg will grapple with Skretkowicz. These are the two matches that will pit two nationally ranked wrestlers. “You have to beat him [Skretkowicz] on your feet. He is real long and goes after your legs,” said Greenberg. Skretkowicz, a solid performer on the mat, has had the better of the 2 earlier meetings between the two, but Greenberg vowed to make his own dent in the season series tonight. 141-pound junior Casey Becker, 149-pound senior Chris Pirch, and heavyweight senior Sean Wing all figure to tangle with the Pride tonight in addition to the rest of the squad. “This will be a battle for No. 1 in New York State,” concluded Koll. Archived article by Donald Lee
SUNY to Fund MVR Reconstruction

By wpengine January 25, 2002

The State University of New York (SUNY) Construction Fund has agreed to grant Cornell funding to initiate the first stage of program planning and design for the reconstruction of the north wing of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall. The building was closed last July due to deficiencies in the concrete slab floor supports. “We are going to re-allocate some state funding authorizations from the Construction Fund so that we can go ahead with the project,” said Henrik N. Dullea ’61, vice president for University relations. “SUNY has indicated that they’ll try to find $2.8 million for design work to get that process started,” he added. The initial program planning and selection of an architect for the design of the $30 million project will begin this semester. “We appreciate the recognition by everyone of the magnitude and urgency of this project. We are absolutely delighted that a decision has been made and the project is moving forward,” said Patsy Brannon, the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of Human Ecology. Classrooms, laboratories and office space totaling 40,000 square feet were lost with the emergency closing of the north wing last July. The new design will include assignable space for the 300 faculty and staff who were dislocated, though it is yet to be determined whether the design will provide the 25,000 square feet of program space that the College of Human Ecology needed before the closure of the building, according to Kay Obendorf, associate dean of the College of Human Ecology. “The old design was not very efficient for achieving maximum assignable square footage. It is still under discussion what will be done to make the new building more efficient, a little bit larger in order to deal with the master plan of the University, and how to best allocate the new programs,” said Obendorf. A newly formed committee comprised of representatives from the human ecology college and officials from statutory facilities maintenance will look at updating the program needs of each department in the college, according to Brannon. “An architect will be established through the procedures of the State University Construction Fund and the programmatic definition committee,” said Brannon. The discovery of deficiencies in the floor slabs of the building by SUNY and Cornell experts prompted the evacuation that relocated all professor emerti, graduate assistants, the Family Development Center, the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center and the Media and Technology Services Center. “Use of the Mann building provides us some extra space. But we will need to surge out of there to allow the [Mann] renovation project to begin,” said Oldendorf. “It’s been hard on our students because we no longer have a student commons,” said Oldendorf. Once funding is secured, construction may begin as early as Sept. 2004 with completion of the new building slated for Sept. 2007, according to Dullea. Archived article by Dan Webb