most recent alumni magazine

I found the following inside.

"The author even highlights a Big Red hockey game, comparing it to a Balinese cock-fight and dissecting its symbolic function. 'Cornell hockey shows some of the mechanisms by which collective identity is created. Everybody wears the school colors and waves flags; you have the sacred object, which is the team coming on the ice; there's the singing of songs - it's very much like a religious experience'."

Amen to that!

melissa '01 wrote:

"Everybody wears the school colors"

Everybody except Judy, right?

hey. do WANT us to have bad luck?

make that "do you WANT us to have bad luck?"

man i've got to start logging in so i can edit my mistakes.

I always thought the sacred object was the Whitelaw.

The symbolism of college sports. Duh.

The author should take on something even more intellectually challenging, like the symbolism of pro wrestling.

Is there an Endowed Chair of the Ridiculously Obvious in the American Studies department?

It is endowed jointly with the Chair of the Unbearably Pretentious.

The Starbucks Chair of the Snobbishly Incoherent. Got a nice ring to it. "Getcha red hot Derrida, here..."

It's also one of the more damn annoying things because the number of red (or shades of red) articles of clothing in my wardrobe is slowly increasing!!! But no, I'm not going to show up naked one day at a game due to my refusal to wear red. I have an equal if not greater number of pieces of black clothing!

Greg wrote:

The author should take on something even more intellectually challenging, like the symbolism of pro wrestling.

Is there an Endowed Chair of the Ridiculously Obvious in the American Studies department?

Well, if said Endowed Chair had anything to do with pro wrestling, it'd have to be a folding chair.

(Yeah, yeah what do you want from 8:00 in the morning?)

For 8 a.m., I'd say that was brilliant.