Columns
GUEST ROOM | Don’t Put Your Health on the Back Burner
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Add in the commitment of playing a Division I sport, and pressures and stress levels are likely to reach an all-time high.
Columns
MEIDENBAUER | In Support of the Women’s Rowing Team
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Toward the end of March, The Cornell Daily Sun published an article written by Anna Hooper ‘25 on the Cornell Women’s Rowing team’s performance at the Doc Hosea Invitational. While seemingly innocuous, the points in the article that implied how the team supposedly performed poorly feel out of touch, as someone very familiar with the team. I once again find myself pleading for all to be kinder to student athletes and recognize their achievements. While I’ve discussed this subject before, I’d like to share more about what it truly means to be a student-athlete, and why articles like this aren’t an accurate depiction of where a team is currently at.
Sports aren’t just about performance in terms of times or standings; those are merely a goal. Athletes simply spend too much time for a medal or a trophy to be the sole driving factor behind why we participate in our sports.
competition
Students, then Athletes: Cornellians Navigate the New Normal On and Off the Field
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Students from various sports teams discuss the thrills and challenges of returning to regular practice and competition schedules this fall.
student activism
Cornell Student-Athletes to March for Systematic Change This Sunday
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Cornell’s student athletes will march to amplify the voices of Black student athletes in a sports department lacking representation on Sunday at noon.
board of trustees
EDITORIAL: A Messy but Acceptable End to the JT Baker Saga
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What a terrible mess. This year’s student-elected trustee race saw Jaewon Sim ’21 take the prize, but only after the ugly disqualification of JT Baker ’21, who ran a campaign focused on student-athletes. The latest news is that Baker would’ve won were he not booted out for breaking an election rule. In light of that, the Committee on Board Composition and Governance opted to split the difference. The CBCG recommended Sim take the traditional student-elected trustee seat and Baker fill a vacant trustee seat.
Columns
GUEST ROOM | Shut Up and Play: Challenging JT Baker’s Disqualification
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As a student-athlete, a black man and a supporter of JT Baker, I am disgusted and disappointed — though not wholly surprised — by the outcome of the recent student-elected trustee election. JT’s disqualification was not only unjust but is reflective of the campus climate at the predominantly white institution that is Cornell University. Furthermore, JT’s disqualification speaks to larger issues of exclusion of student-athletes and students from underrepresented communities at large from the limited, competitive and time-consuming opportunities in shared governance. Both the president of the University and the chair of the Board of Trustees have spoken out with strong statements condemning the disqualification decision by the Trustee Nominating Committee. And yet, the only actions being taken are empty calls for “reforms” for future elections.