The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/athlete/)
Two basketball players from Brown University filed a class action lawsuit against the Ivy League on March 7, arguing that Cornell University and other Ivy League institutions violate antitrust laws in their refusal to offer athletic scholarships.
For the first few weeks, waking up felt like being prematurely yanked from the womb and waterboarded in Cayuga Lake. But, with force of habit and sufficient exhaustion in the evening, the mornings slowly became bearable.
Rushing should be an athlete’s decision. Don’t think that an athlete could handle the time commitment? Fine. But these student-athletes are adults who have already done the impressive feat of being accepted into Cornell. Most of them are lifelong athletes who know how to budget their time well.
Cornell places additional testing requirements on students in Greek life and other community living arrangements, to mixed responses.
Two-time FIFA World Cup champion Carli Lloyd exchanged her number ten jersey and cleats for a sweater and jeans as she took to the stage at Cornell on Friday night.
At the age of 19, Karen Chen ’23 has already won the 2017 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, competed at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics and published a book. Now, she’s joining Cornell’s Class of 2023.
JT Baker ’21, who was disqualified from the student trustee race, would have won the position had he stayed in the race. He will fill a vacant spot on the Cornell Board of Trustees alongside Jaewon Sim ’21, the undergraduate trustee-elect, for the next two years starting July.
Former Cornell place-kicker launches new wearable technology with his start-up company, hoping that the new product can replace the stopwatches that athletes rely on to measure their running speed.
Cornell Prof. Lawrence Glickman, history and American studies, hopes that the athlete’s presentation on his new book and visit to a Cornell history course will address the responsibilities of athletes “in our political culture,” he said.