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The JA says:
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In the past tradition has included throwing fish on the ice, but no longer will this be allowed at any time.
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Um, so the University used to allow people to throw fish?

You bet (or at least it was not strongly discouraged or policed). In the late 70s (my student years) it was common practice to throw fish and tie a chicken to the Harvard Goal.

Chris

Mary Beth Grant wrote:

Last year, someone threw a fish at a Harvard player during the national anthem, and hit him in his face mask. As a result, no one may throw fish even before the game.

Oh, come on! That was quite possibly the greatest throw of anything, ever!

I know all about the tradition (see [www.amurgsval.org] ); the point is, by saying they won't allow it any more, the authorities are implying it was previously allowed. As long as the Cornell has been worried about covering its arse, throwing fish has to have been officially forbidden, even if it was tolerated.

The last big push the University made at cracking down on the fish-throwing was for the 2000 quintafinal series vs Harvard. (I suspect this was because Game Two was televised.) People got scared and relatively few fish were thrown at the usual time (when Harvard first appears), although the plan backfired and a bunch of fish were thrown along with the newspapers during lineups, causing a longer delay because the clean-up crew had to stop its work during the anthems. Things had returned to normal by the next time the Crimson came to Lynah.

Hillarious. I'd love to see them try to JA hundreds of students.

I'm glad they mentioned this:

Sneaking into games. Seats are limited and not everyone will have tickets to see the action. Perhaps they need to go a little more with this. They also need to more vigilantly kick people out who decide that their section isn't good enough for them and sneak into lower-lettered sections than their ticket says. People in section B are there because they worked hard to get those seats. It's not fair when people with section F tickets that they bought outside the rink from a scalper sneak under the railing during the national anthems and scrunch everyone in section B into a tighter formation.

Josh Herman wrote:

[q] Mary Beth Grant wrote:
Last year, someone threw a fish at a Harvard player during the national anthem, and hit him in his facemask. [/q]

He was wearing his helmet while the national anthem was playing!!! Asshole!!! He deserved to get smacked in the face with a dead smelly fish.

Adam '04 wrote:

He was wearing his helmet while the national anthem was playing!!! Asshole!!! He deserved to get smacked in the face with a dead smelly fish.

Are you using some odd form of hyperbole for effect, or seriously insinuating that it's the fans' job to regulate with violence (however silly) possible lack of respect shown by a student athlete?

Mary Beth Grant wrote:
Last year, someone threw a fish at a Harvard player during the national anthem, and hit him in his facemask.


Good thing he was wearing the mask. If not, we could have sparked an international incident. Guess we should mandate masks for cooks now, as flying fish seem to pose a danger to all of us.

BTW. . .It was a great throw, not timed well, but a great throw nonetheless

Ben '03 wrote:

BTW. . .It was a great throw, not timed well, but a great throw nonetheless

Are you taking credit for said throw?

nope. . .no credit for this throw. . .mine was the first to hit the ice!!!

BTW. . .that fish came from section D, I sit in B.

Having the ability to actually look at a hard copy of the Sun, I thought I should mention that this "article" is really just a letter to the editor which most people would probably never read, and which the fish stuff is about half of one point, out of four total points. If they put printouts on the seats in Lynah or if it makes the front of back page, then we'll worry about them really cracking down. Otherwise, it's probably just posturing, so that we all know the official party line (ya know, like telling us yearly that we can't say "sucks" ).

-Fred

DeltaOne81 '03 wrote:

Having the ability to actually look at a hard copy of the Sun, I thought I should mention that this "article" is really just a letter to the editor which most people would probably never read, and which the fish stuff is about half of one point, out of four total points. If they put printouts on the seats in Lynah or if it makes the front of back page, then we'll worry about them really cracking down. Otherwise, it's probably just posturing, so that we all know the official party line (ya know, like telling us yearly that we can't say "sucks" ).

The message that should ACTUALLY get out about the fish (which can't start to be emphasized enough) is that nobody should throw fish (or anything else) once the game has started.

Just in spite I'm now gonna take as many fish in as I can fit on myself, and get everyone I know to do the same.

yeah on the web they dont mention it is a letter...

We've also never been "allowed" to make demeaning remarks about opposing players, so yelling "Sieve" has also always been "forbidden." Guess I should have been JA'ed, oh... about ten thousand times as an undergrad.

And if throwing "anything" on the ice is verboten, what about the newspapers?

)how about throwing newspapers containing the warning about throwing things on the ice. . .???)

Well, as long as the "security" they have to "enforce" thse rules are 80 year old geriatrics, I wouldn't take what the "letter" says with anything more than a grain of salt.

This is a big rivalry year with Harvard, especially since this is the year we win it all! Bring lots of fish, bring as many as you can possibly fit on yourself! Get everyone to do the same! I want to see the Harvard players buried in sea of fish!!!

About two years ago at Lynah after an announcement that throwing any more objects on the ice would result in a bench penalty against Cornell (this was after the start of the game), I overheard someone behind me say "I don't care if they we get a penalty, we'll win anyway".

Moron.

Thank you, I didn't mind the police escort out, and from what I heard we played like crap anyway

yeah we sucked. . .I mean we only put three in their net before they scored and two more before their next one and then one more
(bringing the score to 6-2). yeah, you're right that last goal we allowed with 23 seconds left said it all. . .we stunk!

I'm willing to give you credit for the throw but not for your timing, poor, poor choice. And as for your recap of the
game. . .better decisions this year and you might actually know what you're talking about.

Justin Nachod '04 wrote:

[Q]They also need to more vigilantly kick people out who decide that their section isn't good enough for them and sneak into lower-lettered sections than their ticket says. People in section B are there because they worked hard to get those seats. It's not fair when people with section F tickets that they bought outside the rink from a scalper sneak under the railing during the national anthems and scrunch everyone in section B into a tighter formation.[/Q]

Good point. However, to be fair, some of the people in B (at least last year) are partially guilty of this as well. When I was in D last year, people in B used to come over and scrunch into D during the second period, to see Cornell score more goals. Naturally, when the third period began, D wasn't nearly as scrunched as it was in the prior period. This whole thing pissed me off to no end.

what the heck is up with today's sun article - about halfway down it starts talking about playing brown, injuries sustained against SLU (t) last week-end and dave francis. what's the deal, yo?

Looks like they somehow pasted the preview for last year's home Harvard/Brown weekend onto the end of the article. Bizarre.

...a blast from the past.

Ya can't keep that Dave Francis guy down!

The Sun does that stuff all the time. It's very embarrassing to think that an Ivy League school can't post its newspaper on the web without so many egregious errors.

Oh gosh, let's not open that whole Davey Francis can of worms.....though now that I think about it......what ever happened to Yo Momma? Still hard at work in the "fields of Roseland, MI?"

The Ivy League school has nothing to do with it.

Beeeej

Well, from where do you think the students that run the student-run newspaper come?

They all go to the same Ivy League school. A school which has nothing to do with the newspaper or putting it on the web.

Beeeej

So what Erica meant to say was "You'd think Ivy League students..."