[Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names
Posted by jeh25
[Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names
Posted by: jeh25 (130.132.105.---)
Date: March 07, 2002 04:26PM
According to [www.news.cornell.edu] , "[The project]...will create five distinct houses, each named after a legendary Cornell faculty member."
I think we should start a campaign to have the 5 residential colleges named after famous Cornell sports figures. Would you rather live in Dryden, Harkness, McEneaney, Marinaro or Nieuwendyk House or would you rather live in Bethe, Sagan, Feynman, Morrison or Debye House?
(Okay. So I'm really really bored and can't wait for tomorrow.)
I think we should start a campaign to have the 5 residential colleges named after famous Cornell sports figures. Would you rather live in Dryden, Harkness, McEneaney, Marinaro or Nieuwendyk House or would you rather live in Bethe, Sagan, Feynman, Morrison or Debye House?
(Okay. So I'm really really bored and can't wait for tomorrow.)
Re: [Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names
Posted by: Greg Berge (---.metro1.com)
Date: March 07, 2002 05:59PM
Personally, I think a Feynman house would be way... fricking... cool!
Re: [Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names
Posted by: Greg Berge (---.metro1.com)
Date: March 07, 2002 06:03PM
> The houses will emphasize informal interaction with faculty members, opportunities for personal and intellectual growth, self-governance, social and cultural programming, privacy and independence.
As a proud UHall 5'er (I have no idea which Class of X building that is now), lemme tell ya... that's about as far from our Freshman atmosphere as you can get.
As a proud UHall 5'er (I have no idea which Class of X building that is now), lemme tell ya... that's about as far from our Freshman atmosphere as you can get.
Re: [Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names
Posted by: littleredfan (---.resnet.cornell.edu)
Date: March 07, 2002 06:38PM
ah thats a whole bunch of nonsense...it won't do any of those. a house will not make upperclassmen care about personal/intellectual growth if they don't already... the uhalls right now have opportunities for faculty interaction, privacy, independence, and programming, just that few take advantage of it.
Re: [Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names
Posted by: Greg Berge (---.metro1.com)
Date: March 07, 2002 06:50PM
Can't blame em for trying, but let's rewrite the project mission statement.
The houses will emphasize cramming after not rolling out of bed for that 9 am Ag quad class all semester, opportunities for massive consumption of alcohol and junk food, self-"governance" when your Friday date cancels at the last minute, social and cultural diatribes, isolation and depression.
Re: [Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names
Posted by: Josh '99 (---.stny.rr.com)
Date: March 07, 2002 07:13PM
Greg Berge wrote:
So, uhh... and there's beer, right?
> The houses will emphasize informal interaction with faculty members, opportunities for personal and intellectual growth, self-governance, social and cultural programming, privacy and independence.
Re: [Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names
Posted by: DeltaOne81 (---.resnet.cornell.edu)
Date: March 07, 2002 08:07PM
I'm sooo with you on not being able to wait for tomorrow. How in the world do they expect me to put up with a Friday prelim and lab? grrrr
Mission Statement
Posted by: jtwcornell91 (---.nas22.somerville1.ma.us.da.qwest.net)
Date: March 08, 2002 01:05AM
How about "the Residential Houses will be part of a lame attempt to become a clone of Harvard"? (I'm still bitter that after ten years of trying, the administration finally found a plan that pissed off few enough people so they could set about dismantling the do-it-yourself college experience that made the Cornell of the late 20th century a great place to go to school.)
Re: [Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names
Posted by: Greg Berge (---.dial.spiritone.com)
Date: March 08, 2002 02:21AM
John, I genuinely don't follow what you're saying.
(And I trust the students of today are doing everything they can to make their experience as self-guided as... well, as all college students have since the 12th century. )
(And I trust the students of today are doing everything they can to make their experience as self-guided as... well, as all college students have since the 12th century. )
Re: [Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names
Posted by: Lowell '99 (140.251.159.---)
Date: March 08, 2002 03:46PM
I actually think the houses may partially succeed in being more of a "living-learning" environment for the dorms, if only from self-selection. Most upperclassmen are still going to move off campus, I'd imagine.
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