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Quote from: ursusminor on October 02, 2026, 08:31:35 PMRPI defeated Army 5-4 at West Point in a preseason game. Hat trick for Rainers Rullers.

Please, there's no such person.

Quote from: The Rancor on October 01, 2026, 01:00:47 PMNot guilty because of lack of "incontovertible proof" or "an airtight case" or whatever legal backflips you need to do to justify the University or DA's position, doesn't meant that it didn't happen, wasn't scarring, horrible and despicable and unfortunately quite common. 8% of reported rape ends in conviction, and estimated only 40% are ever reported to the police. Don't be gross.

Read what I've actually said again, please. If you still feel I'm "justifying" the university's and/or DA's position, denying that it happened, denying that it was scarring, horrible, and despicable, or insisting that "incontrovertible proof" is required for charging or conviction, then you're not reading what I've actually said. "Gross" is subjective, but if you're basing it on the foregoing, please take a break and come back later.

Quote from: Dafatone on October 01, 2026, 12:23:07 PM

Quote from: Beeeej on October 01, 2026, 12:15:20 PM

Quote from: The Rancor on October 01, 2026, 11:54:33 AM

Quote from: Beeeej on October 01, 2026, 10:09:08 AM

Quote from: stereax on October 01, 2026, 09:48:02 AM

Quote from: Trotsky on October 01, 2026, 07:08:15 AMIt is bracing to see stories on this running at the top of the sites for DW, France24, and Al Jazeera.

This is now the only thing 98% of high school students know about Cornell.

This and the bear.

I'm watching law school reddits be like "we should stop applying to Cornell!" like they don't know the law school is mostly independent of the undergraduate schools, or that there isn't frat life in law school... Interesting times we live in.

The administration that was responsible for handling Cornell's response to these events is not merely in charge of the undergraduate schools, nor only of Greek Life. And sexual assault happens everywhere. While I hate the knee-jerk reaction so many people are having without waiting for all the facts, I absolutely don't think it's unreasonable for those having such a reaction to look at Cornell's Ithaca campus as a whole as "implicated" in the response.

"Why does every woman know another woman that was raped. But no man knows a rapist?" Waiting for all the facts?

Speaking solely as a hypothetical disinterested attorney asked to represent Jane Doe in the civil lawsuit, the initial report she filed that was the basis for the DA not filing charges tells a radically different story from what's being alleged now, and I'm not sure I could recommend a strategy to overcome it. Yes. Waiting for all the facts. That doesn't mean I think she's lying or that it didn't happen, and it doesn't mean I think the university's response was entirely proper, it means that I think it's not an airtight case and people are reacting as if the university ignored incontrovertible proof.

I think the DA was very mistaken in categorizing the victim's initial report as saying the encounter was "consensual."

It seems to me that there was initial consent, then somewhere along the way with the addition of more drugs and more men, her ability to consent was hampered.

Given NY's (and several other states') horrifying nonsense voluntary intoxication law, I can understand why a prosecutor might look at this and think it is not a winnable case. But that's different than affirming the encounter as consensual.

I would read his recent statement again. Affirming the encounter as consensual is not the same thing as determining that the facts in the report don't meet the requirements for charging a crime. People may not like that they're not the same, but they're not.

Quote from: George64 on October 01, 2026, 12:04:26 PM

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.

It was the system.

Quote from: The Rancor on October 01, 2026, 11:54:33 AM

Quote from: Beeeej on October 01, 2026, 10:09:08 AM

Quote from: stereax on October 01, 2026, 09:48:02 AM

Quote from: Trotsky on October 01, 2026, 07:08:15 AMIt is bracing to see stories on this running at the top of the sites for DW, France24, and Al Jazeera.

This is now the only thing 98% of high school students know about Cornell.

This and the bear.

I'm watching law school reddits be like "we should stop applying to Cornell!" like they don't know the law school is mostly independent of the undergraduate schools, or that there isn't frat life in law school... Interesting times we live in.

The administration that was responsible for handling Cornell's response to these events is not merely in charge of the undergraduate schools, nor only of Greek Life. And sexual assault happens everywhere. While I hate the knee-jerk reaction so many people are having without waiting for all the facts, I absolutely don't think it's unreasonable for those having such a reaction to look at Cornell's Ithaca campus as a whole as "implicated" in the response.

"Why does every woman know another woman that was raped. But no man knows a rapist?" Waiting for all the facts?

Speaking solely as a hypothetical disinterested attorney asked to represent Jane Doe in the civil lawsuit, the initial report she filed that was the basis for the DA not filing charges tells a radically different story from what's being alleged now, and I'm not sure I could recommend a strategy to overcome it. Yes. Waiting for all the facts. That doesn't mean I think she's lying or that it didn't happen, and it doesn't mean I think the university's response was entirely proper, it means that I think it's not an airtight case and people are reacting as if the university ignored incontrovertible proof.

Quote from: stereax on October 01, 2026, 09:48:02 AM

Quote from: Trotsky on October 01, 2026, 07:08:15 AMIt is bracing to see stories on this running at the top of the sites for DW, France24, and Al Jazeera.

This is now the only thing 98% of high school students know about Cornell.

This and the bear.

I'm watching law school reddits be like "we should stop applying to Cornell!" like they don't know the law school is mostly independent of the undergraduate schools, or that there isn't frat life in law school... Interesting times we live in.

The administration that was responsible for handling Cornell's response to these events is not merely in charge of the undergraduate schools, nor only of Greek Life. And sexual assault happens everywhere. While I hate the knee-jerk reaction so many people are having without waiting for all the facts, I absolutely don't think it's unreasonable for those having such a reaction to look at Cornell's Ithaca campus as a whole as "implicated" in the response.

Quote from: ugarte on September 06, 2026, 02:17:54 AMDid not expect wins over Marist and UCSB to have us all the way up at 3 in RPI. Conference favorite Princeton, at 2-0-1 (tie against RPI #13 Villanova), is at RPI #32.

Even more fun, other results in the interim seem to have driven us up to #1.

Quote from: stereax on August 21, 2026, 01:58:16 AMThis is GREAT news ngl and I'm now strongly considering skipping Frozen Apple entirely - Maine is a fun team but not a team that I'd be willing to brave Penn Station at 3 AM for... Plus, not only does noon puck drop really suck to get to and back from, there's effectively no ability to hang out pregame. And after it, well, if we get our asses kicked nobody's going to want to do anything. And after 3-4 PM on a Saturday the museums and shit will be closed (yes I am secretly Dougie Hamilton) so the only stuff left is clubbing (no) or tourist traps like Times Square (also no).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is famously open late Saturday nights. But I don't think that was actually your main point. 

Quote from: upprdeck on August 17, 2026, 10:52:55 AMThe Big Apple game not being in primetime kinda sucks after selling so many tickets promoting it as such.

Pretty sure that the game time was announced before any tickets were sold, but willing to be shown I'm wrong.

Quote from: BearLover on August 12, 2026, 04:26:06 PM

Quote from: Beeeej on August 12, 2026, 12:32:03 PM

Quote from: BearLover on August 12, 2026, 12:07:34 PMThere are a couple of months before the hockey year begins. Here is what I'd like to see on this forum before the start of the season. I believe these are reasonable asks.

1. Sign-ups open and operational. A forum needs new members to survive, and it's important to grow the community.
2. A way to weed out spammers. Two options: (i) a multi-step verification signup process; or (2) the ability for mods to ban spammers.
3. Periodic updates from the site owner and/or mods as to progress on the above.

Thank you in advance to Age and the mods for your consideration.

#1 and #2, and therefore functionally #3, are currently only within the admin's purview. I assume you've said this to him as well as posting it.

I haven't, since I assume he doesn't check this forum, so I was hoping someone with a line of contact would communicate it to him. But I'm happy to try DMing him.

DMing him is what I meant.

Quote from: BearLover on August 12, 2026, 12:07:34 PMThere are a couple of months before the hockey year begins. Here is what I'd like to see on this forum before the start of the season. I believe these are reasonable asks.

1. Sign-ups open and operational. A forum needs new members to survive, and it's important to grow the community.
2. A way to weed out spammers. Two options: (i) a multi-step verification signup process; or (2) the ability for mods to ban spammers.
3. Periodic updates from the site owner and/or mods as to progress on the above.

Thank you in advance to Age and the mods for your consideration.

#1 and #2, and therefore functionally #3, are currently only within the admin's purview. I assume you've said this to him as well as posting it.

Quote from: Old Red on August 12, 2026, 05:58:24 AMCornell also has an equipment manager, Sean Schmidt in his 15th year.  The atheltic trainer, Kaitlyn Petryszen, and strength and conditioning coach, Mike Missen, support several programs.  Ms. Petryszen serves the Mens and Womens Polo teams and the Golf team.  Mr. Missen serves softball, golf and equestrian.

When did Ed Kelly (who's now in something like his 30th year with Cornell Athletics) switch away from men's hockey as its primary athletic trainer? That's honestly news to me.

Quote from: Trotsky on August 05, 2026, 07:42:27 AM

Quote from: stereax on August 04, 2026, 08:34:10 PMMark Divver:

Providence College freshman goalie Ben Hrebik, who played for OHL Barrie the last two years, recently became academically ineligible because he failed a class

Friars looking to add a goalie before start of season and already have a few targets

Hrebik had been on campus at PC for month of July going to summer school

My wife was going to fail Joey Harrington when he was taking her class at UOregon.  That's when she got a visit.  Her doctoral candidacy was mentioned.

He got a D.

Kudos to PC.  There may not be another school in all D-1 that would do that.

The question for me is whether PC would've done the same thing prior to the existence of the transfer portal.

I have no philosophical objection to a student-athlete getting a disproportionate amount of tutoring or other help in order to be able to pass a class they otherwise might not, and I think that's where Cornell's stance lies as well, but it sure does help that they try not to admit kids who aren't capable of the work in the first place.

Quote from: David HardingPassenger train service ended in 1959.  It was a big deal in its day. 

Not quite. The "Black Diamond" route and all other Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western routes that had served Ithaca off and on ended in May, 1959. Two weeks after the last Black Diamond, the "Maple Leaf," a nighttime Toronto-NYC route that was a Lehigh Valley Railroad / Canadian National Railway joint venture, added Ithaca as a stop to absorb the demand. The Maple Leaf discontinued in February, 1961, finally ending passenger train service in Ithaca.

(ETA: I only knew the basics of the above because my Mom & Dad, Helen '62 and Paul '60 - Brooklynites both - each traveled to Cornell and back by train on a regular basis for most of their time as undergrads.)

Quote from: stereax on July 01, 2026, 03:48:00 PM

Quote from: stereax on July 01, 2026, 03:28:42 PMJeff Malott is going to the Ducks.

3 years, 1.85M AAV, apparently.

Not bad for a journey of less than thirty miles.