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I chose "irreconcilably conflicted", but the visceral relief I feel at this moment suggests otherwise.

Couldn't have asked for better placement, personally - a game near Boston on my son's third birthday, during the day so he'll be awake! Stupid question: any way of knowing now what side of the arena should I be getting my tickets for?

I received my 14 tickets in the mail yesterday. (OK, I received 8 and my wife received 6.) Of course, I live a quarter mile from the Yahd. YMMV, but I assume that anyone who bought them online should be receiving them soon.

Quote from: BMacIs this the first Engineer on the team in... ever?

I feel like somebody looked this up forever ago to no avail.

Jan Pajerski '05 was an engineer, but you missed seeing him because he left the team after his junior year.

Quote from: ugarteThe more I read about the nature of the cheating the less I stand by my feeling that the students (as a group) are being railroaded. If people were cut-and-pasting material that was being shared, that's obviously bullshit. That isn't collaboration and consultation; it's closer to plagiarism.

Remember that 125 out of the 250 students have been accused. So while it is becoming clear that a subset of the accused committed serious, copy-paste-style infractions, it is very likely that others are being railroaded. If you have about 9 hours to spare, read the last 4-5 posts on Prof. Harry Lewis's blog http://harry-lewis.blogspot.com/. The relevant excerpt:

QuoteThe course seems to have sent some mixed signals about the exam, with a TF holding office hours during the exam, in which students could hear each other's questions about their proposed answers, and the TF's responses.

Of course, the exam instructions were clear: No collaboration. But 60mph speed limit signs also could not be clearer. If you go 63 for an hour and people are passing you, and then you pass a speed trap and see that somebody who raced passed you at 75 has been pulled over, you get used to the idea that maybe you, everyone else, and the police all agree that 60mph signs don't literally mean what they say. It sounds to me like some students were going 75--they were cutting and pasting--and some of the other students who have been pulled in were going 63. Hopefully the Ad Board will respond in proportion, though I think those 63mph students have some justification for rolling their eyes about their culpability. Those who keep insisting that the students should be punished because the exam instructions were clear will, I trust, not complain if they are ticketed for driving 63, like everyone else,  in a 60mph zone.

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Quote from: ScrewBUThe belief that you can have 5 shots on goal in a period, get up 1-0, and ride that 40 more minutes to a win is just not going to happen.

Were we watching the same game?  Cornell carried the play in the 2nd period on Friday, put a lot of pressure on in the offensive zone, and had 11 shots to show for it in the period. They were certainly not playing "ride it out" hockey in that period.

QuoteWhat happens when you fall behind a couple goals?  

I guess you come back.

And then you do it again.

And then just for shits and giggles, you keep doing it.

And then if at that point people still believe that your team/system is dead in the water after 2 goal deficits, then I guess you just give up trying to show otherwise.

Forgetting about the argument for a second, I love this post. Three great memories.

[quote jhib]Devils.

We're the Devils!  The Devils!!

(gotta support the team)[/quote]

Devils + 1.0.

Do we get a combo bonus?

Also, I believe each voter should be able to distribute -1.0 points among their most hated teams.  If that rule were in effect, I would say:

-0.6 to the Flyers
-0.3 to the Rangers (although -.15 of that will follow Sean Avery wherever he goes.)
-0.1 to Ottawa

April 9: Boston vs. Montreal means Bitz vs. O'Byrne in what's looking like WWE on Ice.  Cornell alumni have 16 PIM  before halftime.  (Most of that is Ryan O'Byrne's double minor and game misconduct for bumping Shawn Thornton during a stoppage, after which he was beaten down by Thornton.)  NESN commentator is saying nice things about Byron Bitz and calling Ryan O'Byrne a dirty goon (no argument here) almost in the same sentence - I'm still waiting for him to make the connection.

[quote ftyuv]Coach talking about Bitz: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185086463/bclid1221908723/bctid14062794001

And Bitz talking about himself: http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185086463/bclid1221908723/bctid14062390001[/quote]

...and now Marc Savard talking about Byron Bitz (among other things) on a morning radio show here in Boston:

http://wzlx.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=3538862

[quote Killer][quote Josh '99][quote Jeff Hopkins '82]Does anybody else wish Melrose would stop calling BC "Boston"?[/quote]Everyone in Boston who's not affiliated with BC does.[/quote]

Are you daft, man?  Nobody here calls BC "Boston".  Where did you hear that, 'cause this is the first time I've heard it.[/quote]

I've bolded the thing he was saying everyone in Boston who's not affiliated with BC does.

The BC/Miami game was great to watch, but I was surprised by how silent the fans were.  I was sitting behind the band and a pocket of BC students, and the only time they really cheered was during the two minutes that BC caught up and took the lead, and after the GWG in OT.

[quote Annoying Name Here][quote BillCharlton][quote nyc94]To add to what Robb said, Cornell has routinely putting out press releases about the record number of applications they have been receiving as have most of the Ivies.  Whatever they are calling the current generation of high school kids - Gen Y, Boomer Echo, etc. - there are a heck of a lot more of them than there was in 1990 when I applied and I wonder if I would be accepted at Cornell now.  My high school routinely graduated 400 a year into the mid-80s and then the numbers started dropping until bottoming out around 220 in about 1993.  They are over 400 again and the town had to build a new middle school, build an addition to the high school, and reopen an elementary school that had been shuttered.  Overall the town population has only slightly increased.

Just wondering chominky, did your son also apply to Arts?[/quote]

Don't overestimate Gen Y. They are not smarter than past generations; they certainly are not better educated. Back in my day, kids used to read books instead of surfing the Internet and playing video games! We also were not overly concerned with finding ways to maximize our SAT scores. We just took the SATs and lived with the result. I get the impression that many of die Wunderkinder today play the recruiting game better and get "coached up" to maximize their scores. Had we grown up in the same environment, I'm sure we could have done the same.[/quote]

FYP for German speakers.

And who is partly responsible for putting into place and perpetuating the system that encourages such behavior among young people today? PWNED.[/quote]

FYP.  Why stop there?

[quote BMac]
On another topic, where was the vaunted and mysterious Cornell Anaphoric Society this year? We had tons of fun singing the other verses of the Alma Mater with "la la la"s, but still....[/quote]

I'm not at Cornell anymore, and thus not in charge of the Anaphoric Society [not that I ever was in charge or had any affiliation with said organization, which does not exist] but from what I hear, most of the Anaphoric Society was priced/lotteried out of season tickets this year.

To answer the obvious question: Yes, 'lottery' is a verb - see usage above.

[quote Trotsky]"Whom" do we root for.[/quote]

"For whom" do we root.

Another angle: http://youtube.com/watch?v=C4kxS1ksqtw&mode=user&search=

A Doug Murray hit is featured on "NHL Plays of the Week" on the NHLVideo channel on Youtube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Di4MdCuGI ).  It's at 3:45.

"Now Doug Murray flattens the Phoenix captain, Shane Doan,..."