most recent alumni magazine
Posted by melissa '01
most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: melissa '01 (---)
Date: August 27, 2002 08:11PM
I found the following inside.
"The author even highlights a Big Red hockey game, comparing it to a Balinese cock-fight and dissecting its symbolic function. 'Cornell hockey shows some of the mechanisms by which collective identity is created. Everybody wears the school colors and waves flags; you have the sacred object, which is the team coming on the ice; there's the singing of songs - it's very much like a religious experience'."
Amen to that!
"The author even highlights a Big Red hockey game, comparing it to a Balinese cock-fight and dissecting its symbolic function. 'Cornell hockey shows some of the mechanisms by which collective identity is created. Everybody wears the school colors and waves flags; you have the sacred object, which is the team coming on the ice; there's the singing of songs - it's very much like a religious experience'."
Amen to that!
Re: most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---)
Date: August 27, 2002 10:47PM
melissa '01 wrote:
Everybody except Judy, right?
"Everybody wears the school colors"
Re: most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: melissa'01 (---)
Date: August 28, 2002 10:40AM
hey. do WANT us to have bad luck?
Re: most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: melissa'01 (---)
Date: August 28, 2002 10:42AM
make that "do you WANT us to have bad luck?"
man i've got to start logging in so i can edit my mistakes.
man i've got to start logging in so i can edit my mistakes.
Re: most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---)
Date: August 28, 2002 02:48PM
I always thought the sacred object was the Whitelaw.
Re: most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: Greg Berge (---)
Date: August 28, 2002 06:13PM
The symbolism of college sports. Duh.
The author should take on something even more intellectually challenging, like the symbolism of pro wrestling.
Is there an Endowed Chair of the Ridiculously Obvious in the American Studies department?
The author should take on something even more intellectually challenging, like the symbolism of pro wrestling.
Is there an Endowed Chair of the Ridiculously Obvious in the American Studies department?
Re: most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: ugarte (63.94.240.---)
Date: August 28, 2002 06:42PM
It is endowed jointly with the Chair of the Unbearably Pretentious.
Re: most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: Greg Berge (---)
Date: August 28, 2002 07:34PM
The Starbucks Chair of the Snobbishly Incoherent. Got a nice ring to it. "Getcha red hot Derrida, here..."
Re: most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: judy (---)
Date: August 28, 2002 08:19PM
It's also one of the more damn annoying things because the number of red (or shades of red) articles of clothing in my wardrobe is slowly increasing!!! But no, I'm not going to show up naked one day at a game due to my refusal to wear red. I have an equal if not greater number of pieces of black clothing!
Re: most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: Josh '99 (207.10.33.---)
Date: August 29, 2002 08:10AM
Greg wrote:
(Yeah, yeah what do you want from 8:00 in the morning?)
Well, if said Endowed Chair had anything to do with pro wrestling, it'd have to be a folding chair.
The author should take on something even more intellectually challenging, like the symbolism of pro wrestling.
Is there an Endowed Chair of the Ridiculously Obvious in the American Studies department?
(Yeah, yeah what do you want from 8:00 in the morning?)
Re: most recent alumni magazine
Posted by: Greg Berge (---)
Date: August 29, 2002 03:47PM
For 8 a.m., I'd say that was brilliant.
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