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CFI Rejects Ties to Proposed Sexual Violence Imitation

By JULIA SENZON Sun Managing Editor

Students expressed outrage on social media over an event Cornellians for Israel had been accused of planning, claiming that the event would feature volunteers acting out a live imitation of Hamas’ sexual violence against Israeli women in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

CFI leadership denies that it planned to go forward with the event.

The Coalition for Mutual Liberation — a pro-Palestinian umbrella organization that has hosted several demonstrations on campus — posted a statement on Wednesday, Feb. 28 condemning the pro-Israel group, accusing it of organizing an event that “risks

re-traumatizing members of the Cornell community who are survivors of sexual harassment and assault.”

Despite CML’s assertion that the event was canceled due to “widespread condemnation from the Cornell and local community” on its Instagram story on Thursday, Feb. 29, Cornellians for Israel President Zoe Bernstein ’24 told The Sun the event was proposed and quickly rejected over February break, which ended one day before CML’s original post.

Bernstein also said that the event was never affiliated with Cornellians for Israel and that an outside organization approached CFI, asking for its assistance in hosting the event.

“There was never any official plan to hold the demonstration,”

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Faculty Members Criticize 'Chilling' Expressive Policy

By CHRISTINA MacCORKLE Sun News Editor

Faculty members added to the chorus of discontentment towards Cornell’s Interim Expressive Activity Policy in a faculty forum meeting held over Zoom on Wednesday, Feb. 28.

Introduced on Jan. 24, the policy imposes limits on student demonstrations, including requiring organizers to register outdoor events with more than 50 people in certain community spaces and limiting the use of amplified sound systems.

Students, faculty, alumni and scholars have condemned the interim policy, questioning its implications for students’ right to protest and noting selective enforcement of the rules.

The Wednesday forum was moderated by Prof. Eve De Rosa, psychology, who is also the dean of faculty. The University introduced the Interim Expressive Activity Policy in response to an investigation by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, Rosa explained. The investigation includes six other educational institutions besides Cornell and is in connection with antisemitic and anti-Muslim harassment.

The complaints against Cornell brought by the OCR are for alleged violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination “based on race, color or national origin.”

In an Instagram statement on Thursday, the group asserted that they decided not to host the demonstration as they felt it was “not an

effective or thoughtful way to raise awareness and provide a meaningful educational opportunity.”

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S.A. Calls to Halt Recent Interim Expressive Policies Members voice concerns about free speech regulations

By DOROTHY FRANCE-MILLER Sun Staff Writer

Amid concerns from the Cornell community about the University’s Interim Expressive Activity Policy, the Student Assembly unanimously passed Resolution 58 on Feb. 22, which called for the policy’s suspension. The S.A. requested that the University suspend this policy until a process for formal consultation with the University assemblies is finalized.

Introduced on Jan. 24 to regulate expressive activity on campus, the Interim Expressive Activity Policy restricts the use of amplified sound, expects registration for all indoor events and outdoor events with more than 50 people in certain community spaces and prohibits postering on trees or outside structures, among other regulations.

Members of the S.A. previously expressed concerns about the limitations of free expression on campus, with many speaking out at the Feb. 15 meeting.

Resolution 58 describes the S.A.’s intentions to introduce means for undergraduate constituents to effectively solicit feedback and engage in discussion about the interim policy prior to the end of the 2024 Spring semester. It also calls for the policy to be suspended until a process for formal consultation with the Cornell assemblies is agreed upon.

The shared governance of Cornell is made up of the Employee Assembly, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the S.A., the University Assembly, the constituent-elected members of the Board of Trustees and the Faculty Senate, which contribute to the school’s legislative process.

According to the Office of the Assemblies’ home page, the assemblies “formally advise the administration and recommend changes to policies through legislative processes articulated in their respective charters.”

However, multiple Cornell assemblies including the S.A. and Faculty Senate have claimed they were not adequately consulted in the creation of the Interim Expression Activity Policy. Faculty Senate member Prof. Risa Lieberwitz, industrial and labor relations, spoke on this lack of consultation in an interview with The Sun.

“There should have been a lot more recognition that the existing governance bodies of the Faculty Senate and the S.A. and the Employee Assembly were not consulted, and instead this full-blown interim policy was brought to the University Assembly as basically a fait accompli,” Lieberwitz said.

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Dorothy France-Miller can be reached at dfrancemiller@cornellsun.com.

posed to [the] CFI [executive] board and immediately rejected.”

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Demonstration denial | Cornellians for Israel was accused of planning an event featuring live imitation of Hamas' sexual violence against Israeli women in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, provoking outrage on social media.

Faculty forum | Cornell professors disscus policy changes at the recent faculty forum meeting.

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S.A. Adds Tabling Requirement for Next Candidates

By ERIC LECHPAMMER Sun Staff Writer

The Student Assembly elections committee passed Resolution 59 at their Feb. 29 meeting, during which they updated the election rules to include a tabling requirement along with a documented form of student engagement.

Candidates will be required to table at a location determined by the elections committee for a mandatory number of hours, during which they can answer questions and engage with students. This requirement replaces the previous petitioning policy, under which candidates had to gather a certain number of signatures from the student body to ratify their candidacy.

Resolution sponsor Luke Thomas ’27, elections committee chair and director of elections, said that petitioning was replaced with tabling partly because of equity concerns. The time commitment necessary for petitioning may make campaigning difficult for students who have jobs or are on a federal work-study program, Thomas said.

Some S.A. members supported the tabling policy, saying that the policy would save time and increase student engagement with the candidates.

Clyde Lederman ’26, undesignated representative at-large, said that petitioning is very time-consuming and that the verification of signatures could add days to the election and transition processes.

S.A. President Patrick Kuehl ’24 was also concerned about petitions being sent to large group chats, through which certain candidates may garner a disproportionate amount of signatures.

Suraj Parikh ’24, elections committee member and vice president of external affairs, said that though not all candidates resorted to using group chats, engaging with community members would nonetheless be better than canvassing for signatures.

“Spending two hours going around and collecting signatures would be better spent sitting at a table at a busy spot on campus, talking to people,” Parikh said.

S.A. Freshman Representative David Diao ’27 said that the engagement garnered through petitioning felt transactional and “fake,” given the signature requirements.

“I think tabling might be [an effective] solution,” Diao said, “That’s a case where students with a vested interest in the S.A. have an opportunity to reach out and have a conversation with candidates.”

Other members questioned the policy, raising concerns about how many hours of tabling would be required and criticizing the resolution’s stipulation to remove the petition requirement entirely.

Imani Rezaka ’24, S.A. college of arts and sciences representative, questioned how the minimum time requirement would be determined by the S.A. She noted that the tabling requirement could end up being equally inconvenient to candidates as petitioning, depending on the time requirement. However, assembly members are optimistic that the new requirement will help boost S.A. engagement.

Parikh said that in light of historically low turnout in S.A. elections, revising the election rules to encourage more student engagement could potentially improve voter participation. Petitioning involves candidates reaching within their social network to gather signatures, while tabling would expose candidates to the student body at-large, Parikh explained.

“Tabling will get more people to know about the Student Assembly,” Parikh said. “You’ll have more candidates and higher turnout by lowering the barrier of entry to running.”

S.A. Freshman Representative Cion Kim ’27 questioned whether tabling might actually decrease voter engagement, given that it would become the student

body’s responsibility to reach out to the S.A. rather than the other way around.

Karys Everett ’25, LGBTQ+ liaison-at-large, acknowledged the merit of tabling, but advocated for some level of petitioning, suggesting that while the signature requirement could be lowered, a record of the number of signatures would be a helpful indicator of community engagement.

“If the point of tabling is to create community engagement, you should be able to prove that you were engaging with the community,” Rezaka said. “That [would be] the goal of having people petition while sitting at the table.”

Everett and Rezaka moved to amend the election rules to include tabling with a petition requirement, but with a reduced signature threshold.

While assembly members considered amending the resolution on the floor to include petitions, Lederman argued that doing so would pose significant inconvenient changes to the election calendar.

“We cannot send out rules to 16,000 students and tell them ‘run’ if we write [these rules] on the [assembly] floor,” Lederman said. “While I appreciate the merits of [petitioning], we just simply cannot add it.”

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CFI Denies Arranging Sexual Violence Demonstration

Despite social media posts, the pro-Israel group denies it planned to host the controversial event

“CFI is dismayed at the accusation that as an organization, we are being held responsible for an idea that never even materialized,” the statement continued.

“CFI is dismayed at the accusation that as an organization, we are being held responsible for an idea that never even materialized.”

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The pro-Israel organization also condemned CML for publishing messages from “a safe space,” referring to a private WhatsApp group, without communicating directly with CFI to ensure accurate information about the event.

The pro-Palestinian group did not answer a request for comment regarding whether it attempted contact with CFI leadership.

The event was proposed to occur on Tuesday, March 5 at Ho Plaza to honor International Women’s Day, according to the CML post, which included a screenshot of a WhatsApp message announcing

the event.

Documentation detailing the logistics of the event as posted by the pro-Palestinian organization stated: “We will mimic a popular live demonstration of a Hamas terrorist and a kidnapped woman with red stains on her clothing tied up. Behind them will be people holding up signs of the kidnapped women from Oct. 7.”

The documentation called for 10 volunteers — one man dressed as a Hamas terrorist, one female acting as a hostage and eight people donning red shirts and lifting up “kidnapped” posters. The volunteers would be paid $20 per hour and reimbursed for travel and sleeping accommodations on an as-needed basis.

The Sun could not independently verify the existence of the WhatsApp messages, who sent the messages or who received them. However, CFI did not deny the accuracy of the screenshots.

According to the CFI post, the organization was approached by a “non-Cornell external organization about the event.”

CFI leadership did not respond to a request for comment verifying the exact organization that approached it about the event or if any members of CFI were also members of the external organization.

According to a screenshot posted by CML, Maman Nonprofit and the Israeli American Council were set to hold the demonstration.

Maman previously held “Bring Them Home Now” demonstrations at Cornell, referring to art installations bringing attention to hostages taken from Israel and held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to the organization’s website. Maman specifically supported a stroller display on Ho Plaza on Nov. 16 and the Law School Courtyard on Nov. 17 to honor the Israeli children held hostage by Hamas.

In condemning the event, the pro-Palestinian organization pointed toward policy 4.19 of the Cornell Student Code of Conduct, which prohibits exposing “a private or intimate part of one’s body in a lewd manner or commit[ing] any other lewd act in a public place.” It is unclear from CML’s provided documentation whether organizers intended for there to be nudity at the demonstration.

But CML emphasized that the most egregious issue was the event’s potential mental health repercussions for victims of sexual harassment and assault.

CML said it sent an email to the Cornell administration detailing its issues with the demonstration and asking for an intervention to prevent it from occurring, but claims it was not answered in the 24-hour timeline the organization provided “before [it] would go public with this information [about the demonstration.]”

The pro-Palestinian organization did not respond to a request for comment on how and when it acquired information about the demonstration, when the administration was approached and its reaction to the Thursday CFI post.

The CML Thursday story post expresses relief about the event’s cancellation, but said “the lack of accountability from Cornellians for Israel for entertaining such an event is disappointing.”

CML also announced in the Wednesday post that it would hold a “peaceful art build” on the Arts Quad next to Ho Plaza when the now-canceled event would occur, to serve “as a safe space for the Ithaca community to gather in light of this lewd and blatantly racist spectacle.”

A Friday, March 1 CML Instagram post said that the event would include sign painting and feminist poetry reading “in honor of the plurality of feminism.”

The pro-Israel organization is also looking into appropriate and effective events to address Hamas’ sexual violence on Oct. 7, irrespective of this incident.

“CFI is exploring ways to respectfully honor the women who remain in captivity and the victims of the mass sexual assault on Oct. 7,” Bernstein wrote.

Julia Senzon can be reached at jsenzon@cornellsun.com.

Assembly amendment | S.A. Elections Committee members revise election rules in Resolution 59 at their Feb. 29 meeting.

Faculty Members Criticize, Question Interim Policy

Although Title VI does not address religious discrimination, former President Trump’s 2019 executive order extended the ban to discrimination based on antisemitism.

Prof. Chris Schaffer, biomedical engineering, objected to the interim policy’s time, manner and place restrictions, citing their “chilling effect” on students’ right to protest.

Schaffer asserted that the current policy’s ambiguous language about the expectation that demonstrations should be registered combined with the warning that “activity that violates this policy will be referred to the appropriate office for disciplinary action” suppresses students’ activism.

Students involved in the Coalition for Mutual Liberation’s Feb. 22 demonstration in Duffield Hall and its Feb. 8 “Walk Out to a Die In” divestment protest were referred to the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards for disciplinary action. CML is a pro-Palestinian umbrella organization that has held several demonstrations on campus.

Schaffer also condemned the interim policy forbidding “sticks, poles and other items that could be used as weapons.”

“This is how people protest,” Schaffer said. “Yes, someone could take that stick and hit somebody else with it and hurt them. [But] trying to prevent that by banning sticks is a massive overreaction.”

Schaffer said that the policy’s banning of sticks creates a difficult enforcement challenge.

“Who is going to be asked to go and wade into a protest with a bunch of signs and identify the people who are holding sticks?” Schaffer added. “It sets things up as antagonistic. It’s patently ridiculous.”

Schaffer similarly expressed concern about the prohibition of candles.

The policy states: “Candles, lamps and other open flame sources are generally not permitted, but may be approved on a case-by-case basis

after review by health and safety personnel.”

“[Candlelight vigils] are a long tradition of protest and remembrance in this country. And while I understand that there is a fire risk with any open flame, I do think people can manage candles in a pretty safe way,” Schaffer said.

Other faculty members voiced confusion about how the policy would be applied due to ambiguity in the policy’s language.

Prof. Hadas Ritz, mechanical and aerospace engineering, asked if a specific protest that took place in her academic building during University hours violated the interim policy. She said that students went through her building, chanting phrases that she could not make out.

De Rosa said that she believed the specific protest mentioned did not constitute a violation.

“Registration [of events] is expected, not mandatory,” De Rosa explained.

In response, Schaffer attested that he interpreted the policy stating that “registration is expected for all indoor events” as meaning the protest violated the policy.

Ritz urged greater clarity in the policy.

“It’s not really clear to me how this [policy] will be interpreted or what is or isn’t prohibited,” Ritz said. “In the language that’s there, I wouldn’t be able to interpret it accurately, so that’s maybe a shortcoming of the policy.”

De Rosa said that before presenting the first draft of the interim policy in January, Vice President and General Counsel Donica Varner consulted academic deans, the University Faculty Committee and all the executive committees for each assembly.

February and March are considered a period for public comment before the interim policies are taken to the Executive Policy Review Group, which can permanently approve the policy, according to De Rosa.

Faculty questioned the University’s plans to punish students

during the interim period considering the policies are subject to change in the future.

De Rosa said that students who face disciplinary action will be disciplined under the new interim policy, not any revision of it.

Cornell Media Relations said that

federal law guards the privacy of students’ educational records when asked in a Feb. 12 email for updates about the disciplinary action for participants in the Feb. 8 divestment protest.

Jim DelRosso, assistant director at Catherwood Library, said that

inconsistency and ambiguity in the policy itself may discourage student protest.

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Christina MacCorkle can be reached at cmaccorkle@cornellsun.com.

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Pardon My Perspective: On ‘I’m Sorry’

By EVE IULO Sun Staff Writer

In the landscape of language, the ubiquitous phrase “I’m sorry” reveals itself as a peculiar taste enjoyed by picky and indiscriminate palates alike. It has woven itself into our daily conversations, transforming genuine remorse into a linguistic reflex. Upon considering my own tendency to apologize, a nuanced pattern unfolds, blurring the line between selflessness and compensation for a self-perceived selfishness.

Over the course of my youth, “I’m sorry” was a common courtesy, a nod to the etiquette that framed the social dispositions. Politeness, embellished with the overuse of these “magic” words, shaped my verbal cadence. However, this inclination towards obsessive apologizing extended beyond the walls of my household, evolving into a societal norm — a tool to maintain rapport and safeguard reputations.

While not all apologies lack genuine remorse, their prevalence has become a cultural convention constructed within frameworks of power and gender dynamics. The frequent use of the phrase does not necessarily denote universal sincerity; instead, they echo a habitual script, guiding the threshold between hubris and humility.

Notably, this societal script has a disproportionate impact on women. A recent piece of feedback from a close friend who listened to a podcast of mine struck a chord: “You have to have confidence in your ideas,” she emphasized. “You follow up so many valid points with ‘I don’t know’ or preface them with ‘I’m sorry, but...’.” This feedback prompted introspection, revealing the pervasiveness of this habit within myself and its manifestation in those around me.

While this phenomenon is not exclusive to women, nor do all women resonate with it, the thought stands: Why are women

seemingly caught in a perpetual state of repentance? Escaping the confines of this linguistic norm becomes not just a personal endeavor but a collective imperative, challenging the deeply ingrained gender dynamics that perpetuate the apology habit and establishing a communication landscape where “I’m sorry” is not inextricably bound to our perceived notion of politeness.

One frequently suggested theory for this occurrence is that being perceived as rude or demanding as a woman is so detestable that we must express remorse for making our voices known. A University of Waterloo, Canada study expands upon this, stating that women apologize more frequently than men due to us having a lower threshold for what is perceived as rude. By extension, we are more inclined to see the need for an apology across various situations.

However, I am skeptical of this explanation amidst the rise of influential female leaders and role models and the growing advocacy for the liberated woman. Instead, I propose frequently using “I’m sorry” as a subtle form of mutiny — a term aptly applied when the situation is clearly not our fault. It becomes a strategic maneuver, born out of our conditioning, to present our basic demands appealingly, a means to receive the respect and fundamental needs we deserve.

In this context, our use of “I’m sorry” transforms from a submissive response to a form of rebellion, a spiteful maneuver against the expectation that we should shoulder the blame in situations where it doesn’t belong.

Apologizing in the face of mansplaining,

prefacing our discomforts or brilliant ideas or initiating confrontations with inappropriate work colleagues using phrases like “I’m sorry but…” isn’t an attempt to project mild-manneredness. Instead, it may be a deliberate response, a prompt to defy centuries of restrained speech and instructed silence.

Or perhaps the phrase serves as a disguise for our shared discontent with systems that

perpetuate the socially constructed legacy of our servitude — manifesting pentup annoyance, impatience and complete intolerance by way of “I’m sorry.”

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Eve Iulo is a second-year in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at eti2@cornell.edu.

‘Drive Away Dolls,’ Sibling Rivlaries and Fun

By MAX FATTAL Associate Editor

“The greatest films of all time were never made… the greatest loves of all time are over now.”

Taylor Swift’s discourse on romance tracks surprisingly well onto the recent history of the great Gen X directing duos: The last couple of years have brought about the divorces of the Safdie brothers, Wachowski sisters and — most tragically — the Coen brothers. Creative partnerships tend to be tenuous, and most historic examples (Martin and Lewis, Nichols and May, Powell and Pressburger, to name a few) end with one or both attempting to stake their own claim — or perhaps needing to after the death of one half. Still, this recent crop of breakups, and particularly the first individual projects from Joel and Ethan Coen, represent at once a great tragedy and fascinating subject for interrogation. A duo best marked for their juxtaposition of brilliant wit with bleak subject matter have split up and demonstrated that they each brought something incredibly different to their collaboration. Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth brought the filmmaker’s trademark visual excellence but stripped the exercise of any humor, and the new film from Ethan Coen, Drive-Away Dolls (or D**es, as the final title card and filmmakers call it), cares about little more than getting a laugh out of its audience. One can’t help but long for days of the perfect marriage of sensibilities found in A Serious Man or Fargo , but when confronted on its own terms, you could do a lot worse than Drive-Away Dolls , a delightful romp and exciting Coen-ish twist on the burgeoning lesbian sex comedy film genre.

Drive-Away Dolls follows two lesbian women, Jamie (Margaret Qualley) and Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan), on a “drive-away” — a type of rental car that doubles as an item delivery service — to Florida. By coincidence, they end up picking up the wrong car and find themselves embroiled in political scandal, possible murder and more. It’s a classic template: road trip romance romp with humorous diversions and a half-baked lesson learned in the end. And on those terms, it mostly works. Drive-Away Dolls is very funny, from the excellent side character duo of Joey Slotnick and C.J. Wilson (credited as The Goons) to the film’s Coen brothers classic punchline conclusion. Qualley, for all the limitations of her admittedly imperfect Southern accent, has an undeniable charisma, as does Viswanathan and Beanie Feldstein, playing Jamie’s ex. Colman Domingo and Matt Damon — both present in smaller roles — are as brilliant as ever, lending the film a bit more of a classic Coens’ edge. It’s difficult to criticize a film constantly making it clear that it isn’t to be taken too seriously. Co-written, produced and edited by Ethan Coen’s wife and long time editor Tricia Cooke, the film leans into a flashy cutting style, transitioning with bold, almost iMovie-like thuds and quakes from scene to scene. The storytelling takes a bit of a freeform structure, inserting extended scenes with a sketch-comedy-lack of forward progression and occasionally cutting back to Checkov’s abstract psychedelic scene, ominously promising a reveal that perhaps doesn’t need the window dressing of an ultra-colorized photo negative. It’s a bit messy, but it doesn’t aspire to a tight three-act structure or

dense, decodable puzzle box: It’s a romp, and in that it succeeds.

Ultimately, there’s probably something about making a film with a partner rather than a sibling that gives the whole experience a bit of a breeziness; romance can do wonders for one’s faith in humanity, while sibling rivalry tends to bring out the worst in people. Comparing the lightness to the Coens’ earlier output, there are absolutely familiar brushstrokes and structures: One can immediately find a shared screwball lineage with Intolerable Cruelty , political farce with Burn After Reading and occasional suburban perversion with A Serious Man. None of those films — frankly no other Coen Brothers film — ends with the saccharine, crowd pleasing bubbliness of Drive-Away Dolls . In that respect, for better or worse, Drive-Away Dolls stands alone.

There’s been talk of a Coen Brothers reunion, a horror film that promises to wipe away any faith in humanity instilled by Drive-Away Dolls. If it happens, it’ll inevitably have more moments of comedy than The Tragedy of Macbeth . And the breakup movies, the articulations of individuality, will take some thorny place in a fractured filmography, forever dooming the duo to separate Wikipedia pages. As a one-off, Drive-Away Dolls is better than a mere cinematic pit-stop, but I can’t help but hope it ends up amounting to little more in the center, not the end, of the Coens’ filmography — perhaps a reclamation project for a future film Twitter generation.

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Despite the overcast, rainy conditions last Saturday, The Cornell Daily Sun still rose to elect its 142nd Editorial Board. Between the fiery speeches and heated deliberations, the day’s end brought together a board and with it, a new and exciting era for The Sun.

Starting off with our premier, the man of the hour is Gabriel Levin ’26, our 142nd editor in chief. Without a true Sun historian, we can’t say for certain, but as a 19-year-old sophomore, he may just be the youngest EIC in Sun history.

Objectively, the news side of the paper is in great hands with Julia Senzon ’26 — and her ten active lists of Sun plans — stepping up as managing editor. Next to her through it all will be The Sun’s resident grammarian, Eric Reilly ’25, who will be serving as the assistant managing editor. As an Environment and Sustainability major, Eric has a bit of a green thumb: In fact, he was even born on St. Patrick’s Day.

Leading the subjective side will be our new Associate Editor Max Fattal ’25. He’ll be joined by Opinion Editor Henry Schechter ’26, a certified Swiftie in the top two percent of listeners.

Sheila Yu ’26 will be heading the business side of things. She’s thrilled to continue serving on the business board and establish more initiatives and efforts to support our Editorial Board for more amazing stories! As human resources manager, we welcome Audrey Im ’26, a lover of coffee culture and snowboarding. Marketing Manager Sofia Iantosca ’26 promises not to bring too much drama, although she was once voted “most likely to have her own reality tv show.” Courtney Huang ’26 — who never forgets a birthday — will be taking the reins as advertising manager.

We’ve got a quartet of news editors joining the board. Always switching tabs between Spotify and InDesign is Marisa Cefola ’26, who has perfect pitch and good enough music taste to handle aux on print desking nights. Last Saturday, Matthew Kiviat ’27 was running for news editor, but he might prefer running on the track, reminiscing about his high school cross country days. Christina MacCorkle ’26 can always be trusted to bring snacks to late print desking nights. As a talented news editor, engineering student (one of only two on the board) and (extremely) amateur ice skater, Kate Sanders ’27 is a jack of all trades.

Behind every great news editor is a brilliant assistant news editor, and this year we’ve got two on the Board. Don’t worry too much if Dina Shlufman ’27 is late to desking; she’s a big proponent of the five-hour midday nap, but she’ll make it to the office eventually (probably looking stylish in black or purple). As for Anushka Shorewala ’26, she loves to binge watch TV shows and movies and make them her personality, so be careful with your Netflix recommendations.

Arts and culture will be headed by the dynamic duo of Eric Han ’26 and Sydney Levinton ’27. When he’s not working on reinventing cultural criticism, Eric spends his free time chewing bubblegum and reading Žižek, and he’s all out of bubblegum. Ever the arts writer, Sydney swears

she doesn’t gatekeep when she finds good music, so be sure to reach out and ask what’s playing through her headphones.

This year's dining editor will be Daniela Rojas ’25, whose cat, Mirabel Arepa, is The Sun’s honorary feline in chief.

Behind the camera, we have Nina Davis ’26 serving as our photo editor. If you ever need a translation in a pinch, she’s a certified polyglot, speaking four languages. As for Assistant Photo Editor Cynthia Tseng ’27, she used to have an Australian accent, but it disappeared when she moved to the U.S. and gave up Vegemite.

Marian Caballo ’26 is our incredible multimedia editor and one of the faces of Around The Sun, working both in front of the camera and behind the scenes on our many video series. You might see her around campus with her 26-ounce iced hazelnut latte in hand. Don’t hesitate to ask for a picture, since she’ll probably have three different cameras with her.

It's one of the most exciting seasons in recent memory for the Red, and Sports Editor Jane McNally ’26 is ready for all of it. As both an athlete and a reporter, Jane splits her time between covering the games and rushing to field hockey practice, with some time in between for Gimme! Coffee iced lattes. She’ll be aided by Assistant Sports Editor Hamna Waseem ’27, who herself will be aided by her cat Juniper (not a member of the 142nd Board).

Writing and editing for The Sun, Laine Havens ’25 focuses her energy on the science section, but outside the paper, she serves as president of Pants Improv Comedy. Don’t forget to ask her how many Marx Brothers she has dressed up as for Halloween. The answer may surprise you! As for Kaitlin Chung ’26, being elected science editor might not even be the most energizing thing she’s done this semester: She just tried coffee for the first time at the Temple of Zeus.

Isabelle Jung ’26 runs our graphics team, giving The Sun its wonderful visual flair. She loves to destress with a game of Tetris, but when it’s time for something higher octane, she’s an avid player of Mario Kart 8 on her Nintendo Switch.

Jolin Li ’27 and Paris Chakravarty ’27 will be taking charge of the layout team this semester as co-editors. Jolin is allergic to cats, but that hasn’t stopped her from having two adorable ones back home; she takes allergy pills every day just so she can pet them. Paris is doubly a master of the keyboard, working tirelessly in the office with InDesign and playing the piano.

In Social Media Editor Jade Dubuche ’27, The Sun has a gem who’s ready to bring our Instagram content to the next level. Jade is a huge sneakerhead, though she’ll need to start coming to the office and desking in person if she’s going to put those expensive shoes to use.

At the end of each night, it's Allison Hecht ’26, our valiant newsletter editor, who gets the first look at each new story and sends them out to all of our subscribers. Luckily, she doesn’t have to go into the office; if she did, her transportation options might be limited, since she still can't ride a bike.

Women’s Hockey Sweeps, Advances to ECAC Semis

By ELI FASTIFF Sun Staff Writer

After winning a nail-biting game one against the Bobcats the day before, women’s hockey crushed Quinnipiac (25-11-1, 13-9-0 ECAC), 5-0, to advance to the semifinals and Championship Weekend.

Cornell (24-6-1, 17-5-0 ECAC) won all three periods of play, particularly dominating the second, en route to tying its largest margin of victory against a ranked opponent this season.

Similar to Friday night, the first period opened with both teams getting shots on net but being stymied by the goaltenders. About 1:40 into the game, junior forward Gabbie Rud and sophomore forward Avi Adam couldn’t convert on an odd-man rush opportunity.

A few seconds later, junior defender Rory Guilday was called for cross-checking, notching Cornell’s sixth penalty of the series. Cornell’s seventh-in-the-nation penalty kill continued its perfect weekend, allowing just one shot during the two-minute minor.

With the penalty killed, the Red looked to get on the board first. They did so when 9:29 into the period junior Kaitlin Jockims fired a shot into the blocker of Quinnipiac’s Logan Angers, ricocheting off right to the stick of sophomore forward Georgia Schiff who shoveled it past the goal line.

The goal paralleled the opening score in game one of the series 24 hours prior, which was also scored by Schiff off a rebounded shot from Jockims.

“[Scoring first] is really important. I know we’ve talked about [scoring first] as a team because it helps us get momentum,” Schiff said. “Especially in [the] playoffs, it’s really big

and then in a longer series [scoring first] gives us some energy that’s much needed at times.”

With 8:52 to go in the first, Cornell got its first skater advantage of the series, snapping a two-game penalty-free streak for the Bobcats. The 10th-best power play in the nation got multiple high-percentage chances, including a junior forward Lily Delianedis shot that grazed the side of the net with 16 seconds left in the advantage.

“We created some good looks,” said head coach Doug Derraugh ’91 after the game. “I thought we moved the puck pretty well on the power play. We just didn’t finish very well.”

For the rest of the period, Cornell continued to edge Quinnipiac in scoring opportunities, until sophomore defender Alyssa Regalado was whistled for high sticking with 55 seconds left in the period.

10 seconds into the power play, a Quinnipiac one-timer from the point hit the post, but Cornell escaped the period with the goal advantage. At the end of the first, Angers had made 10 saves off of 23 Cornell shot attempts, while Cornell’s freshman goaltender Annelies Bergmann made six saves on nine Bobcat shots.

Back-and-forth play kicked off the second before senior forward Izzy Daniel flew by a defender and dropped a pass off to Delianedis, who rifled the puck into the back of the net to double Cornell’s lead 5:30 into the period.

Just like the first goal of the afternoon, the same combination of players had scored the day before. It was Delianedis’ 16th goal of the season and Daniel’s team-leading 35th assist, cushioning her lead in assists per game in the ECAC.

Cornell continued to hound Angers, with Rud wringing the post from the slot just 56 seconds after the Delianedis goal. Eventually, the pressure led to Quinnipiac’s Maddy Samoskevich tripping junior defender Ashley Messier with 12:07 to go in the period, giving Cornell its second power play of the day.

There were multiple good chances for the Red on the power play, including a wrist shot from a falling Delianides that forced a glove save from Angers, but Cornell was unable to

score its third goal. A chaotic third goal of the afternoon would instead come later in the period. With 6:20 seconds to go in the second, a forechecking Schiff poked the puck away from a Quinnipiac defender behind the goal towards Jockims, who then found sophomore forward Mckenna Van Gelder in front of the left post. Van Gelder fired a shot that elicited an airborne rebound, which was ultimately deflected into the goal by her falling body. It was the third goal of the weekend created by the Van Gelder, Jockims and Schiff second line.

“We talked about [how] if we’re gonna have any success at this time of year, we were gonna need all three lines to be contributing,” Derraugh said. “It was a perfect example there tonight where all three lines contributed offensively, and that’s what created a big win for us.”

Cornell continued to hammer the Bobcats, who seemed to have little answer to the Red’s attack. Despite some good chances on a late Cornell power play, the second period ended with two Cornell goals and a 14-1 shot differential favoring the Red.

“I thought we were a little more consistent today,” Derraugh said, noting his team’s improvement from the first game of the series.

“I thought we were a little bit better in our structure and moved the puck better.”

With the score 3-0, Cornell entered the third period looking to finish off the Bobcats and book a ticket to Championship Weekend. Just 1:56 into the period Adam caught a pass from junior forward Claudia Yu during a twoon-one and snuck it by a diving Angers for Cornell’s fourth goal of the game.

As the game wound down, both teams then traded penalties and Guilday hit the post 9:55 into the third period. When Quinnipiac pulled their goalie with 4:32 to go, Schiff deposited an empty netter to wrap up the 5-0 win. The 1,230-strong crowd erupted for one last time as the final horn sounded as chants of “We want Colgate” echoed throughout Lynah.

“It’s a great feeling,” Schiff said when asked about the series sweep. “We have a great group of girls right now on the team and it makes it really fun to win together.”

Cornell will take on No. 5 Colgate in Hamilton, New York next Friday in the ECAC tournament semifinals. The game will be streamed live on ESPN+.

Men’s Hockey Salutes Seniors Seger and McInchak, Bests RPI

By JANE McNALLY Sun Sports Editor

It was a night emblematic of Cornell hockey culture.

Saturday evening began with a rendition of the Swedish national anthem, played in honor of senior forward Gabriel Seger on his senior night. The Cornell Pep Band, dressed its best, later serenaded the crowd to the six-verse alma mater, which it only does for the final men’s hockey home game.

And even after Cornell secured the 3-1 win over Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Seger and senior goaltender Ryan McInchak embarked on their well-earned farewell laps.

“It was [a] great [night]. … After the game, [I was] hugging [my] teammates [and] coaches and then celebrat[ing] a little bit with [the] Lynah Faithful who were awesome,” Seger said. “And then having your family out there is a great time.”

Fans packed the stands at Lynah to witness the final regular season of men’s hockey’s 2023-24 campaign, and they weren’t disappointed. The

Red stuck to its stingy style of play to secure one final victory before its bye week ahead of the ECAC playoffs.

“It’s been a long battle here with the guys being sick, and I was really happy with the way that we came out and we had a little bit better mindset,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86.

Cornell finishes its season 17-6-6, with a 12-6-4 conference record. The Red secured second place and the No. 2 seed in the ECAC playoffs.

“I told our guys after the game, to go 17-6-6 with 10 freshmen on our team is just a tremendous accomplishment,” Schafer said.

Neither team jumped out to a lightning-fast start on Saturday, but Cornell’s steady pressure ultimately earned it the game-opening tally. On a two-on-one, freshman forward Jonathan Castagna fired a shot on RPI’s Jack Watson, who surrendered a dangerous rebound with junior forward Jack O’Leary breaking on the other side.

Don’t leave O’Leary unattended –– without hesitation, O’Leary fired the rebound into a vacant net, giving Cornell a 1-0 lead for the second

straight contest.

This time, however, the Red didn’t go away. Sticking to its defensive philosophy, Cornell limited RPI (9-21-4, 6-13-3 ECAC) to seven shots in the first period and a total of just 20 in the game. The defensive end was shaken up a bit after Friday night’s disappointing loss to Union.

Freshman defenseman Marian Mosko slotted in on the third d-pair while sophomore defenseman Jack O’Brien suited up as the extra skater. Freshman defenseman George Fegaras, who had only missed one game all season, did not suit up.

“We made some changes [after Friday night] because guys aren’t listening,” Schafer said, referencing the slight alterations in the defensive pairings.

Defensively, Cornell flourished ––

the Red held a shutout for 58:15 on Saturday night.

“I didn’t think we gave up a whole lot of chances tonight,” Schafer said.

The Red’s offense capitalized once more with 5:59 left in the opening frame, as freshman forward Jake Kraft stuffed home a loose puck in the crease to double the Cornell lead going into the second.

The middle frame endured a lengthy stretch without a whistle, allowing for a fast-paced, fluid stretch. Neither team particularly dominated offensive zone time until the second half of the period, where Cornell executed a handful of precise passing plays, all of which culminated in its third goal. On a single-man effort, Junior forward Sullivan Mack collected the puck behind the net and pulled off a wraparound attempt that beat the goaltender. Cornell rekindled its signature offensive tactics on Saturday, creating traffic in front of the net and scoring from up close.

“We had some guys walk right down the pipe today that couldn’t score,” Schafer said. “But we were able

to get those greasy goals, bring it to the net and jam it home.”

Cornell appeared to extend its lead once more in the third, when Kraft notched what would’ve been his second of the game on a scrum in front of the net. However, the play was reviewed and the goal was ultimately negated.

“I don’t know why [it didn’t count],” Schafer said.

RPI similarly had a goal of its own overturned a few minutes later, keeping the score steadfast at 3-0.

A late Engineer goal with 1:45 left in the game ultimately spoiled junior goaltender Ian Shane’s shutout bid, but the crowd erupted as the horn sounded on a 3-1 senior night win. Unlike after the Red’s heartbreaking 1-0 loss to St. Lawrence on senior night last season, the team was able to soak in the festivities Saturday night with a weight lifted off its shoulders.

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To the chip | Cornell’s sweep of Quinnipiac sends the Red to ECAC championship weekend.

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