Opzi - Need help from Cornell hockey diehards
Posted by doms
Opzi - Need help from Cornell hockey diehards
Posted by: doms (---.nys.biz.rr.com)
Date: April 21, 2010 04:39PM
I'm working on a new resource for Cornellians called Opzi, a collection of intelligent questions and answers from the Cornell community. One cool thing we hope to do is capture knowledge (be it facts or stories) and present it in an easily searchable and browsable way.
Cornell hockey has such a great history, and it'd be great to create a place where someone new to the sport or community can quickly get a sense of what it's all about, ask newbie questions, etc. I thought it'd be great to start building up a good archive of content for the incoming freshmen next fall, so if you have time this off-season, would be awesome to get some contribution of answers (and more questions you think people would find interesting).
[www.opzi.com] (Cornell Hockey)
ps - Opzi covers more than just Cornell hockey, so if you happen to have any questions for the Cornell network, feel free to post.
Cornell hockey has such a great history, and it'd be great to create a place where someone new to the sport or community can quickly get a sense of what it's all about, ask newbie questions, etc. I thought it'd be great to start building up a good archive of content for the incoming freshmen next fall, so if you have time this off-season, would be awesome to get some contribution of answers (and more questions you think people would find interesting).
[www.opzi.com] (Cornell Hockey)
ps - Opzi covers more than just Cornell hockey, so if you happen to have any questions for the Cornell network, feel free to post.
Re: Opzi - Need help from Cornell hockey diehards
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: April 21, 2010 04:54PM
How did the Campbell Soup can labels get their colors?doms
ps - Opzi covers more than just Cornell hockey, so if you happen to have any questions for the Cornell network, feel free to post.
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Re: Opzi - Need help from Cornell hockey diehards
Posted by: munchkin (---.c3-0.sbo-ubr4.sbo.ma.cable.rcn.com)
Date: April 21, 2010 05:55PM
Mr. Campbell was on campus and saw the banner with Cornell's name on it on cpus. Originally Campbell's colors had been orange and black (like another school we know well).Al DeFlorio
How did the Campbell Soup can labels get their colors?doms
ps - Opzi covers more than just Cornell hockey, so if you happen to have any questions for the Cornell network, feel free to post.
Re: Opzi - Need help from Cornell hockey diehards
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: April 21, 2010 06:42PM
As I understand it, a Campbell executive was taken with the colors of Cornell's football uniforms (red top, white bottom) and convinced Campbell management to put those colors on the can. This is from Wikipedia (so reader beware):munchkin
Mr. Campbell was on campus and saw the banner with Cornell's name on it on cpus. Originally Campbell's colors had been orange and black (like another school we know well).Al DeFlorio
How did the Campbell Soup can labels get their colors?doms
ps - Opzi covers more than just Cornell hockey, so if you happen to have any questions for the Cornell network, feel free to post.
Campbell Soup cans' colors are red and white. Cornell's colors are red (carnelian, specifically) and white. The similar colors are no coincidence. In 1898, Herberton Williams, a Campbell's executive, convinced the company to adopt a red and white color scheme, because he was taken by the crisp colors of the Cornell University football team's uniforms. In 2004, at the urging of The Image Committee of the Student Assembly, Cornell University officially reverted to a version of this shade of red (PMS 187) after a four-year brush with the much brighter PMS 186.
I had not been aware of the 2004 color change, but I do like it.
I posted the question because I think it's a good candidate for Opzi.
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Re: Opzi - Need help from Cornell hockey diehards
Posted by: munchkin (---.c3-0.sbo-ubr4.sbo.ma.cable.rcn.com)
Date: April 21, 2010 10:05PM
The version of the story I posted is what my grandpa used to say at info sessions to prospective students. He ('52) and my grandma ('53) did a lot of them and still have the slides they used from the 70s along with that little quip on the paper that went identified what was in each slide.Al DeFlorio
As I understand it, a Campbell executive was taken with the colors of Cornell's football uniforms (red top, white bottom) and convinced Campbell management to put those colors on the can. This is from Wikipedia (so reader beware):munchkin
Mr. Campbell was on campus and saw the banner with Cornell's name on it on cpus. Originally Campbell's colors had been orange and black (like another school we know well).Al DeFlorio
How did the Campbell Soup can labels get their colors?doms
ps - Opzi covers more than just Cornell hockey, so if you happen to have any questions for the Cornell network, feel free to post.
Campbell Soup cans' colors are red and white. Cornell's colors are red (carnelian, specifically) and white. The similar colors are no coincidence. In 1898, Herberton Williams, a Campbell's executive, convinced the company to adopt a red and white color scheme, because he was taken by the crisp colors of the Cornell University football team's uniforms. In 2004, at the urging of The Image Committee of the Student Assembly, Cornell University officially reverted to a version of this shade of red (PMS 187) after a four-year brush with the much brighter PMS 186.
I had not been aware of the 2004 color change, but I do like it.
I posted the question because I think it's a good candidate for Opzi.
Re: Opzi - Need help from Cornell hockey diehards
Posted by: mnagowski (---.bflony.fios.verizon.net)
Date: April 21, 2010 10:54PM
Cornell hockey has such a great history, and it'd be great to create a place where someone new to the sport or community can quickly get a sense of what it's all about, ask newbie questions, etc.
I like the concept of Opzi, especially in its abillity to connect disparate segments of Cornellians together. But to be fair, isn't this a service that eLynah already provides? Or do all of the anarcho-capitalist debates scare off the youngsters?
Re: Opzi - Need help from Cornell hockey diehards
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: April 22, 2010 09:19AM
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!mnagowski
Cornell hockey has such a great history, and it'd be great to create a place where someone new to the sport or community can quickly get a sense of what it's all about, ask newbie questions, etc.
I like the concept of Opzi, especially in its abillity to connect disparate segments of Cornellians together. But to be fair, isn't this a service that eLynah already provides? Or do all of the anarcho-capitalist debates scare off the youngsters?
Re: Opzi - Need help from Cornell hockey diehards
Posted by: CowbellGuy (Moderator)
Date: April 22, 2010 01:40PM
Help! Help! He's being repressed!Trotsky
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!mnagowski
Cornell hockey has such a great history, and it'd be great to create a place where someone new to the sport or community can quickly get a sense of what it's all about, ask newbie questions, etc.
I like the concept of Opzi, especially in its abillity to connect disparate segments of Cornellians together. But to be fair, isn't this a service that eLynah already provides? Or do all of the anarcho-capitalist debates scare off the youngsters?
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"[Hugh] Jessiman turned out to be a huge specimen of something alright." --Puck Daddy
Re: Opzi - Need help from Cornell hockey diehards
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com)
Date: April 23, 2010 07:15PM
CowbellGuy
Help! Help! He's being repressed!Trotsky
Come and see the violence inherent in the system!mnagowski
Cornell hockey has such a great history, and it'd be great to create a place where someone new to the sport or community can quickly get a sense of what it's all about, ask newbie questions, etc.
I like the concept of Opzi, especially in its abillity to connect disparate segments of Cornellians together. But to be fair, isn't this a service that eLynah already provides? Or do all of the anarcho-capitalist debates scare off the youngsters?
Bloody peasant!
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