News from the front… worst line ever

You folks joining me in section B should start doing your hockey cheer homework.

By far the worst line in my 3 years here, and that’s coming from grad line #23 (roughly undergrad #200). How can 1300 pushing students be expected to squeeze through a single door at Lynah? What about all those fools pushing from the right who didn’t know there was a railing between them and the door? I saw numerous women fall down/get trampled/ twist their ankles. Some gave up halfway to the door -- either due to injuries, asthma/panic attacks or claustrophobia -- and tearfully screamed their way out the opposite direction of the chaotic mass.

The police directing traffic were good for preventing the car-vs.-pedestrian accidents intimated by last year’s procedure. However, the security manpower was clearly needed at the front. If you weren’t there, just picture a few hundred students crammed on the stairway leading up to the main doors outside of section A.

Afterwards (~45 minutes after the initial announcement) the police were re-deployed to front of Lynah where they were needed all along. But mass chaos was still in effect and it was hard for a handful of shoving officers to try to squeeze the remaining students on the steps into some semblance of a line. Clearly these were the people right at the borderline of receiving tickets and many were frustrated by the sudden changes in (shoving) procedure that the officers brought with them.

Grad students with line numbers around 100 were screwed the worst, as in all the chaos some representative from the athletic department decided an hour into it that they should be in an entirely different line (duh) and so those that actually made it into Lynah later found out that late arriving grads had leapfrogged them by way of the ‘new’ grad line forming by the ticket window.

Heard lots of chants along the way, lots of comments about Gene Nighman’s family. I certainly think it’s time for one of the injured students to step forward and sue the Athletic Department for negligence. Maybe then they will finally feel some pressure to get rid of some of the gratuitous leniency shown alumni Nighman (who is consistently cursed every year but usually survives the process because the students who firsthandedly observe the chaos end up with tickets and are content to hold onto them rather than risk some backhanded revocation of tickets for calling upon him to resign). Whether you ended up with a number or not, start writing those letters to the Cornell Daily Sun, even if we can’t get Mr. Nighman fired, it will definitely make for a good read throughout the week.

Mr. Nighman, if you’re reading this and want to have a roundtable session with eLynah faithful about what a better procedure might look like (especially one with a goal of minimizing injuries), you know where to reach us.

Re: Roundtable discussion:

Been there, done that. 1991. How do you like the results?

Beeeej

i smell like the bushes out front after getting pushed into them for 20 minutes before the line began to move

We don't blame YOU Beej. Here's a start: how about no season tickets for freshmen (the hockey diehard freshmen will get tickets somehow, I didn't have season tickets my first year in Ithaca and still managed to get to most games).

Oh, I didn't think you blamed me. I just didn't want you getting your hopes up that having a representative of Athletics sitting down and "listening" to people who had constructive suggestions would actually result in any positive changes.

It really is astonishing how every year they completely forget every lesson they possibly could have learned from previous years.

Beeeej

This year's ticket line killed my father, and raped my mother.

[Q]French Rage Wrote:

This year's ticket line killed my father, and raped my mother. [/q]

I don't think the girl that had the ambulance called for her would find this very funny. And neither do I.

[Q]bjybjy Wrote:

French Rage Wrote:

This year's ticket line killed my father, and raped my mother. [/Q]
I don't think the girl that had the ambulance called for her would find this very funny. And neither do I.[/q]

No, but perhaps people who don't have a stick up their ass and get the reference do.