election week
Election Week, in Their Own Words
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The Sun spoke with students on Election Day and the days to follow. Here’s what they had to say about living on campus during such a momentous election.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/lpichini/)
The Sun spoke with students on Election Day and the days to follow. Here’s what they had to say about living on campus during such a momentous election.
This increasing activism represents a positive development. Athletes deserve to have a voice on social issues that are often deeply personal to them.
The NFL’s refusal to adopt a bubble format and its lax enforcement of COVID-19 protocols jeopardizes the health and safety of players and staff across the league.
“To play in the spring, those other seven schools are going to have to invite their classes back,” Archer added. “You have to ask the medical people, ‘Is playing football medically appropriate to play in the spring season and then turn around and play in the fall?’
The new Cornellians will fill the void left by six skaters who graduated last spring, including three Patty Kazmaier Award nominees in defensemen Jaime Bourbonnais and Micah Zandee-Hart and forward Kristin O’Neill.
“The Ivy League is the Ivy League. We don’t have any playoffs, so this cup is our trophy — our bowl game,” said Phazione McClurge.
Prior to this update, Cornell’s athletic teams were still in Phase 0, in which no in-person physical activities were allowed to take place.
Dartmouth leads the series, 61-41-1, and the rivalry has featured iconic tilts such as the “Fifth Down Game.”
Cornell’s last win against Colgate came in 2016, the series stands tied, 49-49-3.
“Not only was I taking on a new school, … I was now taking on an entire sport and rowing at the collegiate level — they’re a D-1 team, and they’re all boys,” said Teevyah Yuva Raju. “To be a 5’2” coxswain and walk into a room full of 6’4”, 6’5”, 200-lb guys is no easy feat.”