It's not for us. It's really for the students.

This is a team effort. These students belong to all of us.

They talk to us now, and ask us for suggestions on how things should be going [in practice], or what we feel we could do to be better with this and that. It's because we've earned their respect and their trust by what we've done. It makes you feel like you're all one, like the coaches are almost playing, too.

(Having our own label) helps us show our work ethic, that we'll be successful no matter what.

[At a meeting in Statler Hall Sept. 1, representatives from departments across campus met with students from Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi and surrounding states to discuss Cornell's response to the hurricane.] We know this is on the early side of the response, ... We think of ourselves as in this with you. This is going to be a long-haul ordeal. Our thoughts are with you.

Students can nominate anyone on the [URI] staff. We've had students nominate the janitor in their building because they have gone above and beyond expectations.