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Here's a summary from the NY Times.  Surely, now that it's spring, they could have found a better picture to use.

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Quote from: stereax on May 14, 2026, 10:38:50 PMPlease stop Major at center. It is painful for me.

Wasn't he becoming cromulent on draws towards the end?  I could be hallucinating.

The Goldstein-Firth combo reminds me of Eamon McEneaney and Mike French.  Both French and Firth began as box lacrosse players in Canada.

Mike French '76 to receive the Tewaaraton Legacy Award.  Hard to believe it's been 50 years since he graduated!

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Quote from: George64 on May 02, 2026, 07:58:50 PMVideo of altercation at Day Hall parking lot.  Draw you own conclusion.

The video has been since been enhanced to focus on the students and Kotlikoff's car.  For those of you who still have to go to work, the incident got about 30 seconds on Good Morning America.  No context, no mention of Kotlikoff responding to students as he walked from Goldwin Smith to the Day Hall parking lot. 

I don't get their free speech issue here.  The CPU had representatives of both sides in the debate.  Norman Finkelstein last Friday, Benny Morris a week earlier. That's what universities are about.  Hear different viewpoints, weigh the arguments, decide for yourself. I commend CPU for initiating the debate.  I commend Cornell for limiting protests that interfere with the functioning of the University or harass individuals.  I think these particular students were just being jerks.

It's still not okay to hit jerks with your car. And this wasn't exactly unforeseeable. Kotlikoff should have had a better plan in place for his car being surrounded by students than hit them with his car.

The NY Times article has been revised and now provides a more complete account of the events.

Quote from: George64 on May 02, 2026, 07:58:50 PMVideo of altercation at Day Hall parking lot.  Draw you own conclusion.

The video has been since been enhanced to focus on the students and Kotlikoff's car.  For those of you who still have to go to work, the incident got about 30 seconds on Good Morning America.  No context, no mention of Kotlikoff responding to students as he walked from Goldwin Smith to the Day Hall parking lot. 

I don't get their free speech issue here.  The CPU had representatives of both sides in the debate.  Norman Finkelstein last Friday, Benny Morris a week earlier. That's what universities are about.  Hear different viewpoints, weigh the arguments, decide for yourself. I commend CPU for initiating the debate.  I commend Cornell for limiting protests that interfere with the functioning of the University or harass individuals.  I think these particular students were just being jerks.

Video of altercation at Day Hall parking lot.  Draw you own conclusion.

Here's the NY Times article

NCAA Championship at Lake Placid. RIP Danny Lodboa, Johnny Hughes, Harry Orr . . .

Interesting article in today's NY Times about Alex Bores'13, New York congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over A.I. regulation. 

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Quote from: billhoward on April 19, 2026, 08:09:31 PMMay 19, 1976, NCAA Quarterfinals
Cornell 14, Washington & Lee 0
Goaltender, Dan Mackesey '76

This was the first of Cornell's back to back championships. The title game is notable because the match versus Maryland ended a 12-12 tie, Cornell won 16-13 in overtime, and Maryland scored the first goal. At the time, the NCAA realized any one lacrosse goal can be fluky, so play 5 minutes.

Dan Mackesey Ithaca High '72

Mackesey was also the starting goalie for the men's soccer team. Those were the days when it was more common for star athletes to play two sports. Brock Tredway, for example, was a star hockey player for Cornell in the late '70s who also was on the soccer team.

Bruce Cohen, lacrosse hall of famer, led the Ivy League in goals one year playing soccer.  Also, a starting guard on freshman basketball team.  Busy guy.  No NIL, either.

All-American hockey defenseman Harry Orr '67 played lacrosse when Ned Harkness was coach.  He had a wicked underhand shot.  According to legend, Ned said he couldn't play hockey if he didn't play lacrosse.  Ned's lax teams were 35 and 1.  No NCAA championship in that era.

Tully was again terrific.  Cornell has allowed an average of only 10 goals per game this season, 9.18 if we erase the Penn State debacle. Only single digit goals against in the last four games.

High Point touts itself as the nation's number one lifeskills university (write your own punchline).  They also have a link on their athletics page to make NIL gifts.

This from a friend, not about hockey, but speaks to the sorry state of college athletics:
"Don't know if I mentioned this, but the Wall Street Journal had an article a week or so ago about Michigan's basketball program, with the coach saying that he doubts that he will ever again enter the home of a high school recruit, that all of his recruiting will be from the portal and he will have plenty of dollars to do the talking."

Transfer portal

So far, only Cornellian listed is Winter Wallace, who's a grad transfer.

Quote from: Trotsky on April 14, 2026, 07:19:14 PMYeah, but why Cornell then?  I'm sure he also had looks from the very western contenders he is rumored to be looking at now. 

I thought, perhaps naively, that if a player chose Cornell that indicated the education, or at least the designer label, factored in.  I am super disappointed of course, but more I am surprised, and I have been in enough weird situations that I am hard to surprise at this point.  This doesn't make sense to me unless it is purely mercenary and some program and/or alum dropped a shit ton of payola on him.  In which case, vaya con Dios.

From The Atlantic (04/04/26):

"In a paper first published in 2023 and updated last summer, [Brown University economist John] Friedman, along with [Harvard economist Raj] Chetty and the Harvard economist David Deming, quantified the advantage that students gain from attending an elite university. They found that students who attend an Ivy Plus university are 50 percent more likely to be in the top 1 percent of earnings by age 33, twice as likely to go to an elite graduate school, and three times as likely to work at a set of prestigious firms than if they attend a flagship public university. On average, their income is $101,000 higher a decade after graduation."

That's for a flagship public university, not Whatsamatter U.  We need to remind our recruits to think about the long run, not just short-term gains.