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Here's an analysis from a friend who follows the women's team pretty closely:  "I think the key with Doug's teams has always started with defense and I think they missed Rory Guilday last year more than they might like to admit.  For sure, the team will miss Avi Adam up front this year as well as Grace Dwyer on the blue line, but I'm expecting a good year from Lindzi Avar – I think being named co-captain (with Karel Prefontaine) will help her.  Piper Grober, Karel and Rose Dwyer should be a good start on defense and Doug has added some size there with Carly Dann (5'10").  Speaking of size, I'll be interested to see 6'1" Keira Bruen up front.  An issue last year was Bergmann's propensity to give up rebounds, and here, I think, is where the team really missed Guilday and Ashley Messier and their ability to keep the front of the net clear.  Remains to be seen if that gets fixed."

I agree, and I hope that Sally Yates' investigation will put an end to the rampant speculation as to who did what and to whom.  She has excellent bona fides.  She was appointed US Deputy AG (second highest position in the DOJ) in 2015 and fired as Acting AG in very early 2017 for insubordination.

NY Times article about Sally Yates appointment.

Just received

NY Times: Cornell Faculty Members Signal Deep Anger With University Leaders

Being a university president is a tough job. They need to please three constituencies —

Alumni who want a winning football team
Students who want more sex
And faculty who want better parking

One out of three isn't bad! 

Seriously, what more was the administration supposed to do?  They offered the entire 120 page Jane Doe interview transcript to the DA, conducted a lengthy Title IX investigation, expelled, suspended, and/or declared persona non grata each of the seven.  My only question is why "I'm 100 percent certain I was raped" was omitted from the six page summary originally sent to the DA.

Quote from: Dafatone on October 05, 2026, 04:33:56 PMMaybe what I want is for campus PD to take "PD" out of their names and just be campus security or something, then.

As I recall, at one time, it was called the Safety Division.

Crime and Punishment

For a change of pace, Greg Morrisett , Vice Provost and Dean of Cornell Tech, quoted several times about AI (not, thankfully about Chi Phi).

This from The Free Press:

When Victoria Ingalls heard a knock on her front door, she feared that the worst had happened to her son, Matthew Ingalls, who is an active-duty sergeant in the Marine Corps. Instead, the stranger on her doorstep handed her a 101-page lawsuit that accused her son of being among the seven Cornell students who allegedly raped a female student.

But her son never went to Cornell. The court had the wrong Matthew Ingalls.

Needless to say, this Ingalls family had been vilified on the internet.

Quote from: stereax on October 01, 2026, 09:30:26 AMI'm sure he'll do well with us! I'm not saying he's a midget or a bum. Just that he's shorter than Cournoyer (and short for a goalie) . . .

The goalie for the only undefeated D1 NCAA championship hockey team was 5'6" Brian Cropper.

From ESPN:

Arizona State hockey coach Greg Powers has been placed on paid administrative leave days after several members of his team asked the university to remove him pending an investigation into a teammate's collapse, the university announced Wednesday.

"After thorough and careful deliberation, I believe this is the best move to provide stability for the hockey program," Arizona State athletic director Graham Rossini said in a statement.

Powers could not be reached Wednesday. He repeatedly declined to answer reporters' questions about Mayich's collapse during a news conference last week.

In their letter to the school sent Monday, seven hockey players detailed the Aug. 20 workout in which defenseman Matthew Mayich collapsed, disputed the findings of the university's review, and asked the school to place all staff responsible for the workout on administrative leave.

Finally, some good news — Song Lin, Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow/Tisch University Professor at Cornell, has been awarded one of this year's McArthur Fellowships, aka, Genius Awards.

Arizona State hockey players speak out

Two articles from the NY Times:

Chi Phi rape

DA's office

As a one-time owner of four golden retrievers, I'll go with Dr. Houpt's interpretation of the dog's behavior.