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Setting Records and Succeeding: Meet Senior Gymnast Sydney Beers
With twenty years of gymnastics experience, senior gymnast Sydney Beers has made an unforgettable impression on the gymnastics program at Cornell — rewriting record books and leading her team to success. As the senior looks to the Hill for the last time, The Sun sat down with Beers and discussed her historic career. Early Gymnastics and Committing to Cornell At two years old, Beers started her gymnastics career through Mommy and Me gymnastics classes. Over time, she said she was eventually placed on a team where she started as a Level 4 gymnast, and she worked her way up to Level 10 in the eighth grade. Beers also said she…
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SOLAR FLARE | An Epilogue to Senior Year
These songs describe the feelings that are uniquely tied to these past four years and the tangle of emotions that looming graduation brings. It’s folk with a little pop mixed in. It’s happiness and nostalgia and panic. Jacqueline Taieb: “7 Heures du Matin” It sounds like the scramble of getting up for class on a Thursday after going out the night before. The song is chaotic and retro, romanticising youth. French! 2. Kurt Vile and John Prine: “How Lucky” The soft guitar and gentle vocals underscore one last reflective stroll through campus. “Today I walk down the street I used to wander.” To me, it’s a message from your senior…
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BURZLAFF | Let the Words Come First: On Final Papers and the Courage to Begin
On my daily stroll, I could feel the tension in the air — in libraries, cafés, carrels. Tabs open, cursor blinking, pressure mounting. The quiet weight of something coming due. Final papers have a way of sneaking up on us — not just in time, but emotionally. Even when we’ve had weeks to prepare, the actual moment of sitting down to write can feel like staring into a mirror we didn’t ask for. I recall the voices in my own head: You don’t sound smart (or worse, academic) enough. You don’t know what you’re saying. And somehow, before we’ve even typed the first sentence, we’re already exhausted. But what if…
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Three Current Cornell Students See SEVIS Records Restored
The Trump Administration announced on Friday that it would walk back the revocation of over 1800 student visas, reversing a months-long campaign that targeted international students for removal. These walk-backs include the restoration of Student and Exchange Visitor Information System records for three Cornell students. This announcement comes amid widespread student visa revocations and terminations of over 1,840 SEVIS records from over 240 colleges and universities across the United States, according to an Inside Higher Ed tracker. 17 current and former Cornell students were among this number. The University revealed on April 16 that 17 SEVIS records were terminated by federal authorities, with at least four of the students reporting…
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No.1 Men’s Lacrosse Beats Dartmouth on Senior Day, Kirst Sets NCAA Record
Men’s lacrosse entered its clash against Dartmouth with a lot on the line. Cornell needed to defend its senior day ceremony, protect its No.1 rank in the media polls and launch senior attackman CJ Kirst into the record books as the player with the highest career goals in NCAA history. In the end, Cornell (12-1, 6-0 Ivy) defended its home field from the Big Green (8-5, 2-4 Ivy) and won 10-8. On the first possession of the game, Kirst cut in front of the goal and got the ball from fellow senior and long-time attack partner Michael Long. Kirst shot and scored his 225th career goal, leaving him as the…
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Softball Gets Back on Track with Series Win Against Penn
With nine interleague games remaining and coming off a series sweep, Cornell softball (15-15, 6-9 Ivy) needed a rebound series to make a push for the Ivy League tournament. That series came this weekend at home against the University of Pennsylvania, as Cornell took two games out of three. Most notably, after scoring only four runs in their previous series, Cornell completely turned the tide, scoring 23 runs in its three games against Penn. Game one on Friday was an 8-0 victory for the Red. In the bottom of the second inning, sophomore outfielder Hailey Pirkey opened the scoring with a one-run blast to left field. Cornell built onto the…
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Women’s Lacrosse Falls to No. 16/18 Penn Despite Strong Final Push
In its penultimate game of the season on April 19, the Red (9-5, 3-3 Ivy) went down the road to Philadelphia to play conference rivals No. 16/18 University of Pennsylvania (8-5, 4-2 Ivy). The Red came into the match hoping for a victory that would seemingly secure Ivy League Tournament qualification, but would end up falling short in a tough 18-10 loss against the Quakers. The game started off evenly matched, with each team exchanging blows early into the game. However, five unanswered goals late in the first quarter would quickly shift the momentum in favor of the Quakers. Head coach Jenny Graap ’86 said it is important to come…
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Women’s Rowing Topples Dartmouth in Clash for the Parents Cup
Created in 2000 in honor of parents’ support, The Parents Cup has been historically awarded to the winner of the 1V8 race in the Dartmouth-Cornell regatta. Last Saturday, women’s rowing headed up to Vermont to compete against the Big Green for possession of the coveted cup in the Lake Morey Regatta. The winner of the cup was decided during the 1V8 race between the Red and the Big Green in the morning session of the regatta. The Red went up against the Northeastern University Huskies for a few additional races in the afternoon. Ultimately, the Big Green retained the Parents Cup this year, winning the 1V8 race with a time…
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WEIRENS | Dressed to Distress: White Dress Woes
111 dresses tried. Three states. Hours and hours spent standing in front of cracked mirrors and dirty white walls, bending and zipping, spinning and twirling. Stomach grumbling, head pounding, legs aching. That’s how one of my friends spent three entire days of her spring break – endlessly shopping for the right graduation dress. This friend, although a more extreme example, is fairly representative of the struggle many graduating women experience finding their dress. This is for many reasons: White, the traditional (to a duress-like extent) color of a graduation dress, is a difficult color to look good in, the social pressure of shopping for such a large event is stressful,…
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Track and Field Delivers Another Strong Performance at Cortland Classic
There’s no better feeling than hitting your stride at the right moment. The Red found its rhythm at the Cortland Classic, making a strong showing in both track and field events across the men’s and women’s competitions. This past weekend, the Red traveled to SUNY Cortland, where it participated in a two-day contest which mainly consisted of decathlon, heptathlon and field events. The Red’s multi-event specialist, junior Gabe Ball, competed in the men’s decathlon, where he achieved second place overall, scoring 5,349 total points. Of this point total, 731 came from a first-place finish in the men’s decathlon high jump, where he cleared a 1.92-meter height. In the men’s decathlon…