[Slightly OT] Chance for Cornell to get More Press

Doonesbury is deciding where Alex should head to College by online poll... and sadly, Cornell is trailing.

[cgi.doonesbury.com]

And to add injury to insult, RIP is winning.

I know there is a Doonesbury thread running in the other section of the forum, but this wasn't prominently featured. Plus, if Alex attends Cornell, this guy will likely visit to get a feel for the campus, and that could mean more press for Cornell Hockey (hence the "slightly" off topic tag). Hence, important enough for it's own topic.

We have more living alumni than almost any school other than Michigan. Come on people -- we can beat these other schools if we put some effort in and spread the word.

I'm leaving for China in a few days, and won't have access to read all of the loving replies. Feel free to flame away. Just vote before you do.

Hockey-flavored hugs and kisses,
Matt Janiga

wow there has been some serious vote-stuffing since I voted...from the other schools

It'll be hard to live down the Wolfowitz rap.

ok, so clearly people wrote software to vote for both MIT and RPI. I've written some in hopes of catching us up, but they've got quite a head start

[www.news.cornell.edu]

Cornell has a significant lead in the "no college degree" demographic.

Why is it that our little blurb sounds so pathetic compared to RIP and MIT? Gahh! One comic strip shouldn't bother me as much as this

ebilmes
Cornell has a significant lead in the "no college degree" demographic.

Well, not anymore. Also, the poll page is loading MUCH more slowly now than it was earlier in the day. In fact, it's not loading at all. Me thinks the site is being bombarded by a script war between Troy and Cambridge, since they don't have anything important to work on at those campuses.

I had gotten us from 3% up to 16, but the combination of mine and the scripts from MIT and RPI was just destroying the box. I gave up, but clearly others hadn't. Looks like at least some of the round-robin boxes are completely down.

Well, maybe he'll like that we cheat slightly less...

French Rage
Well, maybe he'll like that we cheat slightly less...

Or maybe Alex will go to the school with the engineers best able to swamp the system.

[Q]We have more living alumni than almost any school other than Michigan. Come on people -- we can beat these other schools if we put some effort in and spread the word.[/Q]


We have more living alumni that any almost any other school???? that sounds crazy to me. Is this true? Surely the big state schools and big ten schools, etc. must have far more living alumni than us... or they lag behind us only by virtue of growing more recently than Cornell, in which case we will soon be overtaken by many, many schools.

Tom14850
[Q]We have more living alumni than almost any school other than Michigan. Come on people -- we can beat these other schools if we put some effort in and spread the word.[/Q]


We have more living alumni that any almost any other school???? that sounds crazy to me. Is this true? Surely the big state schools and big ten schools, etc. must have far more living alumni than us... or they lag behind us only by virtue of growing more recently than Cornell, in which case we will soon be overtaken by many, many schools.

I beleive he meant we have more living alumni than any school on the Doonsebury list than all of the other schools, save Michigan.

Tom14850
We have more living alumni that any almost any other school???? that sounds crazy to me. Is this true? Surely the big state schools and big ten schools, etc. must have far more living alumni than us... or they lag behind us only by virtue of growing more recently than Cornell, in which case we will soon be overtaken by many, many schools.

It's that we live longer. Those hills were great cardio.

But they must have been hard on the knee joints. I'd think you guys would have orthopedic problems.

Rich S
But they must have been hard on the knee joints. I'd think you guys would have orthopedic problems.

That's true. I've had arthroscopic surgery on both of my knees. Of course playing tennis 7 days a week when I was younger might have had something to do with that as well!

The answer is MIT.

A terrific response to the voting:

[www.doonesbury.com]

[Q]However, students and alums managed to post many passionate, articulate, humorous, and convincing posts on our Blowback page, all making the case that Alex should head to Ithaca. In acknowledgement of this impressive and moving effort, the Doonesbury Town Hall is pleased to award Cornell the Doonesbury Straw Poll Congeniality Award.[/Q]

sigh.

So this Miss Congeniality award means Alex can hate MIT and transfer here in time for her second semester, right?

Yeah, I didn't think so. Oh, well.