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Cornell Takes Multiple League Honors
By wpengine | March 15, 2002
The men's hockey team has yet to play a game at the ECAC Tournament but it still managed to pick up a few trophies at yesterday's ECAC brunch. The team won four out of the six individual awards and placed two of its members on the ECAC All-Star first team.
Head coach Mike Schafer '86 won a much anticipated Coach of the Year after leading the Red to a 17-3-2 conference record (23-6-2 overall). He is a first-time COTY. The Red was also first in the league in scoring, defense, and power play. It boasts the top defense in college hockey and is in the top five in power play and penalty kill.
Senior goalie Matt Underhill took the Ken Dryden Award. Although starting in half of the ECAC games this season, Underhill had the lowest goals against average (1.52) in the conference and the second lowest save percentage (.935). He also tied four ways for most shutouts during conference play (freshman David LeNeveu, Brown's Yann Danis and Clarkson's Mike Walsh all had two). He kept Clarkson off the board at Cheel and Union scoreless at Lynah.
Junior captain Stephen B
Search for Successor Underway
By wpengine March 25, 2002
When President Hunter R. Rawlings III recently announced his decision to step down as Cornell's president, the Board of Trustees began searching for a successor. With Rawlings planning to retire on June 30, 2003, the committee has 15 months to find a president. Edwin H. Morgens '63, vice chair of the Board of Trustees, and Chair Harold Tanner '52 will appoint a search committee. "[Morgens] is now discussing with a wide range of people at Cornell the makeup of the committee," said Rawlings in an interview with the Sun last week. "[These include] faculty, students, and administrators." According to Chair-Elect Peter C. Meinig '62 the committee will be formed within a "few days," with Morgens presiding over the committee. Although the Board of Trustees has not appointed committee members, the board has a vision of its composition. "I think that the committee will be made up of primarily trustees — we will have student representation, faculty representation, and employee representation on the committee," said Meinig, at the March 15 press conference at which Rawlings made his announcement. The committee will follow the same search process used in 1994, which resulted in the appointment of Rawlings. Both Morgens and Meinig were involved in the 1994 search to replace President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes. "The process we followed [in 1994] involved open meetings with representatives," Meinig said at the press conference. "We divided the search committee into groups and groups of us met with students, others of us met with faculty, others of us did some traveling and met with alumni, and I would suspect that [Morgens] would want to do a similar kind of a process." The Board of Trustees hopes to incorporate opinions from all aspects of the Cornell community. "Our intention is to reach out to all of the Cornell constituencies — get input from everyone," Meinig said, at the press conference. One of the student-elected trustees expressed her position on student input into the selection of the next president. "I believe I speak for both Khary [Barnes] and myself when I say that we believe student input is crucial for the selection of our next president," said Leslie Barkemeyer '03, student-elected trustee. Meinig commented on the timing of Rawlings' announcement in regards to the selection process for the next president of Cornell. "We are announcing his intended retirement now so we can begin an orderly process of finding a successor. This timing is very consistent with the procedure we followed with choosing Hunter as president," Meinig said at the press conference. Currently the Board of Trustees does not have a set timeline for the selection process. "We started the process at approximately the same time [in 1994] as we're starting it now and I believe it was
Trustees Approve Tuition Plans
The Cornell University Board of Trustees met March 15 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, approving among other resolutions statutory college tuition plans. In the first 45 minutes that were open to the public, President Hunter R. Rawlings III gave a status update on Frank H.T. Rhodes, the University's president emeritus, who suffered injuries after being struck by a car in Florida on Feb. 3. The Board also heard reports from Uzo Asonye '02, president of the Student Assembly (S.A.) and Patrick Carr grad, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA). Additionally, Rawlings spoke about the recent hiring freeze, Cornell's reception in Albany, the statutory colleges and the students that participated in the 2002 Winter Olympics. Rawlings began the meeting with an update on Rhodes. "Frank had a terrible accident just north of Naples a month ago," he said, adding that Rhodes sustained injuries to his kneecaps, vertebrae, collarbone and nose. "I was surprised and grateful at how well he had come through." According to Rawlings, Rhodes was thrown "many, many feet in the air and landed on the pavement." He added that "he was able to bend one leg ninety degrees [on March 14] and that was a big milestone for him." Rhodes'