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the length of the rink to put the Big Red
ahead, 3-0, at 12:41 of the second period.
The Ithacans relaxed momentarily,
however, and Mike Sobeski scored from
two feet out 12 seconds later to put the
Terriers back in range.
Cornell was two men down for 1:09
later in the stanza, but BU failed to
score, and it was one man short for five
minutes in the third period, and also
kept Boston from registering, which
seemed to take the starch out of Coach
Jack Kelley's team.
Bob McGuinn iced the verdict at 10:22
of the third period with a rebound goal.
Dry den wound up with 41 saves;
Ryan had 32.
Stanowski, Orr, Doran, and Dryden
made the All-Tourney team, along with
Mike Quinn of Boston University and
Tom Mikkola of Michigan State.
Stanowski was named MVP.
It was only the third time in 20 years
an Eastern team has won the NCAA
crown. RPI won in 1954 and Boston
College prevailed in 1949. Coach of the
RPI team was a lad named Ned Harkness.
The eight seniors led Cornell to an
over-all record of 68-13-1 in their three
years, a winning percentage of 83.5, including
two Ivy League crowns, one Ivy
runner up, one Eastern title, and one
Eastern runnerup designation.
Harkness arrived at the scene a year
earlier, and his first team was 12-10-1.
The Big Red had shown it meant business
by topping North Dakota, 1-0, in
the semifinals March 16.
North Dakota was champion of the
tough Western Conference Hockey Assn.,
and had considerable speed. It did a most
effective job on the Big Red's offense.
The game was a tight defensive struggle
throughout, with a goal by heroic Skip
Stanowski at 17:27 of the first period
the only score.
Ken Dryden posted a shutout, first in
NCAA title-play history.
Stanowski scored his goal 10 seconds
after coming out of the penalty box,
where he had been sent at 15:17 for
boarding.
Fencing
Don Sieja '68 of Princeton, N.J., won
the Illinois Memorial Award as Ail-
American fencer of 1967 at the NCAAs
at Northridge, Calif.
He placed fifth in the epee to lead the
Big Red to a sixth place finish in the
37-team field.
Other Cornell finishers were Dave
Ross '67 of New York, 16th, foil; and
Mike Marion '68 of Boston, Mass., 12th,
sabre.
Wrestling
Don New '67 of Canastota placed
fifth in the NCAA 137-pound division at
Kent, Ohio.
He lost, 5-2, in the quarterfinals to
Masaru Yatable of Portland State, who
Undergraduate Report
bowed in the finals in overtime to Michigan
State's Dale Anderson.
Bob Stock '67 of Bellemare lost in
the 130-pound quarterfinals to Oklahoma's
Harold McGuire in overtime,
and the Sooner went on to win the
NCAA title.
Cornell was in a three-way tie for
24th place with 8 points. Michigan State
won with 74.
The Disadvantaged
BY SETH S. GOLDSCHLAGER '68
• Who is really "culturally disadvantaged?"
Is it the Negro student who doesn't
come from the suburban split-level with
the two cars? Or is it the white student
who has never been taught the achievements
of most black historical figures?
These are the kinds of questions that
are just now beginning to stir the
thoughts of faculty, students, and administrators
within the Cornell community.
They stem from the presence on
campus of more than a token number of
Negro students. And they are the types
of questions the entire white society of
this nation may be pondering if integration—of
true equals—is to have meaning
for both whites and Negroes.
The wondering aloud that's beginning
to be heard characterizes what is termed
"the new mood of the Negro students"
on campus. That phrase is used in a
progress report of the Cornell Committee
on Special Educational Projects. The
group was set up in 1963 with a mandate
from President James A. Perkins
to develop "new programs through
which Cornell could make a larger contribution
to the education of qualified
students who have been disadvantaged by
their cultural, economic, and educational
environments."
The President's committee reflected the
impact of the civil rights movement of
the late '50s. Suddenly, Cornell looked at
its own posture in regard to equal opportunity
in education and found that
while there existed no overt racial barriers
to prospective students, this open
door was not enough. For, as the special
committee soon discovered, certain students,
many of them Negro, could not
meet the admissions standards of the
college although they may have had the
innate ability to do well at Cornell.
The real problem, it was found, lay in
poor elementary-through-high school
educations, culturally biased standardized
tests, and lack of funds to support
the students. While the well prepared and
well endowed Negro student could go to
just about any school, the "disadvantaged"
students were being denied an
education more because of their environment
than because of their will and
abilities.
The committee's work in recruiting,
supporting, and aiding ninety-five academically
"marginal" students over the
past three years is documented in the
group's short but important report
issued this year. It shows that while
half the students in the program attend
the College of Arts & Sciences, every
school except Architecture has enrolled
at least one of the students the past two
years. Besides Arts, the bulk of the group
is concentrated in the College of Agriculture
and the Engineering college. The
students are active in campus activities
and many work at campus jobs to support
themselves. Some have pledged
fraternities and sororities.
"Progress" to this committee might
seem the reverse of normal college admission
officers' statements. For, as evidence
that the truly "marginal" students
are being enrolled, the committee cites
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