OT: Cornell to name new prez today

According to today's Ithaca Journal, Cornell will announce its new president at 2pm today. Any bets?

[theithacajournal.com]

I bet he/she will be tall.

I've MADE my prediction now, but I'll wait til after 2 to post it. I think My prediction will be more accurate that way. What do you think, artist formerly known as ?

I hate you, I hate you, I hate you...

Or barring a woman, I think it might be an Anbinder....

Why not both? Both Mom ('62) and Aunt Maddy ('60) are highly qualified.

Beeeej

Jeffrey Lehman, currently Dean of the University of Michigan's Law School, will be Cornell's 11th President.

[theithacajournal.com]

Beeeej

Lehman is Cornell '77. He has to have some good memories of Cornell hockey, right? Perhaps bring a fan's vision back to the administration of the program? I think someone should drop him a note about HockeyCam right away. . .

I was invited to the lunch today where Jeffrey Lehman '77 was officially announced as the 11th President of Cornell. (One of the perks of being Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce.)

At the end of the lunch, current President Rawlings remarked that in addition to all the academic and research greatness of Cornell that was talked about by Jeff in his remarks, Cornell is currently ranked #4 in NCAA Division 1 mens hockey and will have the opportunity to improve that ranking against #2 Maine.

He also mentioned that Jeff's son (a CU freshman) had asked that now that his father was President of Cornell, could he get hockey tickets. He then had Coach Schafer along with Matt and Mark McRrae come up and present Jeff with a pair of CU hockey tickets along with a Cornell hockey puck!! I think we have a couple of new members of the Lynah Faithful!

Larry

And visions of hockeycams dance in our heads......

Streaming video of the remarks from the lunch should be up on the web by 6:00 or so Saturday. (Free of charge.)

Anyone know if he's from the Lehman Brothers family--Arthur and Herbert?

[Q]Streaming video of the remarks from the lunch should be up on the web by 6:00 or so Saturday. (Free of charge.)[/Q]
Yeah... for now... we'll see once everyone else is about to move to charging for them...

Thanks for all of your hard work on the Search Committee, Pat. Nice job on finding a hockey fan. )

Beeeej

It's not so off topic. The news that Rawlings was to step down broke while we were in Lake Placid. I actually posted the "breaking news" bulletin in 14850 Today from the press room at the 1980 Olympic Arena.

A bit better facilities at my disposal to post today's piece.

[today.14850.com]

How tall is he?

5'6"

Big Red Apple sez: "Lehman is Cornell '77. He has to have some good memories of Cornell hockey, right?"

Hoooooboy, '77 is a fine vintage. Perhaps one of the finest CU sports salmon runs ever. I'm jealous. Not just good memories of another great hockey team (Ivy champs--women too). But think about this: Apart from the ugly football memories of getting fisted by Yale's Spagnola/Pagliaro and the period's numbing hoops malaise, '77 brought Cornell Ivy championships in soccer (badass team), crew (won IRA regatta too), baseball (cracked national top 25?!), and probably others sports that I'm forgetting. Shoot, even fencing, before its recent rude departure, was on fire then, winning the Ivies (and being national runner up a few years before). But most of all you get memories of watching (arguably) the greatest collegiate lacrosse team ever. Imagine two national championships in yer upperclass years. Heavenly.

Here's his online faculty bio:[cgi2.www.law.umich.edu] . Not much more than already listed. However I hope he rings true to his research papers, such as, "Desperately Seeking a Voice (Symposium: Leadership in Legal Education)". Maybe we can finally get some input with the AD.

5'9" on skates.

Beeeej

Ok, I know this is even more off topic, but this just came to my attention as I was reading the new Prez press release on www.cornell.edu. Has anyone taken a look at Cornell's home page lately, and compared it to those of the other Ivies? I think that save for perhaps Columbia's, ours is easily the nastiest, disgusting, pathetic excuse for a home page welcoming all the world to our school.

Who controls that home page and why does it stink so bad? (especially given the presence of creative, talented people on campus that could really make it look with the times)

Yeah, there has been discussed amoung the CIT student staff several times. We also submitted feedback and actually got the page improved to something where you could tell what was a link and what wasn't (kinda), and to something where the most obvious graphic on the page wasn't the "donate" one (how sketchy is that?).

Anyway, if you click Contact Cornell on the left, there's a feedback form. If a few people submit similar feedback, they tend to be rsponsive, but do the bear minimum to meet your suggestions.

They tend to be very defensive about it, though - many, MANY people wrote in when they first changed the design to suggest that it was overly-simplistic, poorly laid out, and just plain bad. But if you didn't have any specific criticisms, they (justifiably, IMHO) responded with a request for more specific suggestions rather than just "the homepage sucks."

Some people's tastes are different from others (as evidenced by Hunter's love of the new "Whatever" Cornell logo), and so just saying they did a bad job isn't very constructive. They might be very happy with the way it looks.

Beeeej

Apart from the ugly football memories

Wasn't Joey Holland scoring touchdowns like crazy then? At least we were still full-fledged Div. 1 at the time, not like the 1-AA insult that was thrown our way in 1982.

Syracuse newspaper article [www.syracuse.com] . I wonder where his daughter was undergrad? States his father was Cornellian, who?
I used printer format to get rid of nonsense on their page.

On the main Cornell website you can watch the video from the luncheon naming the new president. If you start watching at minute 46 you can skip all but the hockey reference and continue watching to the end for a last minute hockey comment ... enjoy.

WOW
Is this wonderful or what. Second only to being able to listen to CU hockey, this is what makes the internet so great for me. Now that we have a true, hopefully, hockey fan close to the president-elect, maybe we can solve our problem.

I know it's great to be the king's son and everything, but why couldn't that kid just wait on line for hockey tickets like everyone else??

His father: Leonard Lehman, '49, according to Monday's Ithaca Journal.

Adam '01 wrote:[Q]I know it's great to be the king's son and everything, but why couldn't that kid just wait on line for hockey tickets like everyone else??[/Q]
Because he's probably just a facetimer, albeit now a very powerful facetimer. I hope I'm wrong, of course, but I'm betting that's the case.

Aw, sheesh. He's a freshman, and we've played seven home games so far? Give the kid a chance to learn the ropes. Or kick his OC around for not telling him where and when the ticket line formed

Slight modification to what I said earlier...apparently, the tickets given to the kid were tickets to the games in Estero in a few weeks. So I don't know if 'facetimer' is a fair label or not. In any case, he's damned lucky to be able to get to see the Big Red, in sunny Florida no less.

Our new Prez looked mightly respectable and unruffled by Ed Bradley on 60 minutes last night. They were doing a piece on the UMich reverse discrimination lawsuit.