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April 11, 2002

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By wpengine | April 11, 2002

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Softball to Visit Brown and Yale

By wpengine April 12, 2002

The softball team will be looking to string together a couple of league wins this weekend as it heads to Brown and Yale for a set of doubleheaders. The Red is currently 17-13, with a 2-2 Ivy record, which is good enough for a third place tie with Dartmouth and Columbia. Harvard and Princeton are sitting atop the league, each having sustained perfect records in the first two weekends of conference play. The Crimson is 4-0 while the Tigers are currently 6-0. Cornell’s season thus far has been a campaign of spurts. This weekend, the challenge for head coach Dick Blood’s team will be to put together a complete game in each of the four contests. Sophomore pitchers Sarah Sterman and Nicole LePera remain the team’s one-two pitching rotation of choice, while the offense has come from different sources nearly every game. The play of sophomore standout Kate Varde has been a mainstay in the Red line-up, and her near .400 batting average has been a lift when the rest of the Red bats go stagnant. Freshman Lauren May and Melissa Heintz, along with senior Kristen Hricenak have also provided power in the line-up as of late. May currently leads the team in home runs, RBIs, and batting average. Of course, the key to run production is getting people on base, an issue which will surely need to be addressed if the Red is going to string together another championship run. However, the present concern is Cornell’s opponents this weekend. Brown and Yale are tied for sixth in the conference, each claiming a 1-3 record last weekend. Brown had been struggling with a nine game losing streak before defeating Dartmouth last Sunday in a late inning rally. The Bears are led by senior second basemen Julia Iudicello, who is hitting .396 for the season and boasts a team-best 23 hits. She had five hits in six games last weekend and should provide pop in Saturday’s twin bill against the Red. The Bulldogs have a very capable pitching staff that posted a 12 inning combined shut-out last weekend over Providence. Yale’s best player is junior Jessika Bartholomew, who leads her team in hits (34), doubles (7), home runs (5), and RBIs (24). This weekend provides the Red an opportunity to finally get all of its parts moving together before heading into possibly its toughest weekend, when Cornell hosts Dartmouth and Harvard next week. Both of this weekend’s doubleheaders will start at 12 p.m. Archived article by Scott Jones
S.A. Approves New Blue Lights to Boost Security

By wpengine April 12, 2002

Last night the Student Assembly (S.A.) approved the installation of new lighting and blue lights as an effort to boost campus security. The movement for better lighting began when students and administrators took a night lighting tour last fall, according to resolution sponsor Nicholas Linder ’05, chair of the Committee on Residence and Community Life. “[Our question was] is there a safe route — not a safe shortcut — to every location on campus,” he said. The implementation of new lighting and blue lights has already been agreed to by the administration. New or improved lighting will illuminate Libe Slope, Baker Court, White Hall, Tjaden Hall, South Balch (bus stop), Community Commons and the Big Red Barn/A.D. White House. Additionally, blue lights will be added at the bus stop near the Townhouses and Robert Purcell Community Center, near the Bailey Hall parking lot and on West Campus near the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. Though passed unanimously, the aesthetic beauty of campus was one of the body’s major concerns, especially for architecture college representative Michael Wacht ’02. Wacht suggested uplighting, where lights are focused upon buildings and reflected back, as is done on McGraw Tower. How the lights will ultimately be positioned, however, “is still up in the air,” according to Linder. Campus safety concerns were of foremost concern to minority liaison Funa Maduka ’04 who was recently elected student trustee. “Would you weigh safety necessities above the aesthetic nature of the campus?” asked Maduka. Linder emphasized that campus safety was “the number one concern” of the resolution. Possible future initiatives include education on blue light use and later weekend schedules for buses. In other business, the Office of the University Ombudsman responded to an appeal to the results of S.A. elections. Linder and four other candidates had filed a complaint before the results were released alleging that other candidates had spent more than the $50 limit on campaigning. “There is no dispute regarding the fact that two candidates spent more than the $50 limit,” said Ronald A. Bricker, associate ombudsman, in a letter to the elections committee. Bricker wrote that the election committee’s rules were contradictory; one rule calls for disqualification for “major offenses” such as violating the limit and another allows the committee discretion in handling offenses. Only four of the eight eligible members of the elections committee were present to certify the results. Bricker recommended a re-vote be taken with all eligible members of the elections committee present. “It’s a fair decision,” said Linder. “This has nothing to do with partisanship or political machines. We just want a fair hearing.” In other news, hotel representative Esther Tang ’04, chair of the Dining Committee and Executive Vice President Mark Greenbaum ’02 commended Nadeem Siddiqui, director of Cornell Dining and Retail Services, who is moving to Stanford University on June 1. “Few people, let alone administrators, have had the ability to consistently make me believe that they were there for the good of the students,” said Tang. “I hope more people will look to his example and continue his legacy in the art of service. I wish him all the best.”Archived article by Peter Norlander