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Quote from: stereax on October 05, 2026, 06:58:44 PM

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Quote from: Trotsky on October 05, 2026, 04:26:50 PMThe point of campus PD is to protect Cornell from liability arising from students' actions.  HR is not there for you.

Maybe what I want is for campus PD to take "PD" out of their names and just be campus security or something, then.

The name was changed from something like Cornell Public Safety to Cornell University Police while I was there in the early 90's.  I believe the idea was to give them more respect and authority.  Someone else on here may remember more details.

This archived article from 2004 notes that CUPD are peace officers, not police officers: Link.

Article from 2006 notes "almost 16 years" after a name change from peace officer to police officer, so 1990: Link.

CUPD now has full police authority, including arrests, as per the most recent annual safety report. However, they are technically still peace officers, from my understanding.

Sometime while I was an undergrad, so 1992-1996, they announced the name change from "Department of Public Safety" to "Cornell University Police Department." The signs changed, new paint jobs on the cars, and (I'm a little hazy on this) the officers were now allowed to carry firearms. They went from being the people who answered the blue light phones to more of a force who showed up at loud parties and wrote a ton more parking tickets.

Quote from: Trotsky on September 23, 2026, 04:52:23 PMGah, I gotta do the TBRW Predictions, goddamit.

Coaches Poll puts us third.

Quinnipiac – 120 (10)
Dartmouth – 110 (2)
Cornell – 102
Clarkson – 86

Harvard – 73
Union – 70
Princeton – 60
RPI – 56

Colgate – 45
St. Lawrence – 29
Brown – 28
Yale – 13

13 points in this poll is impressive.

Quote from: stereax on September 16, 2026, 04:09:16 PMOfficial article.

I've never heard the hockey line referred to as "The Great Wait" and it's called that six times in this piece. If the retcon fix is in for this name, are 2 whole hours really that Great a Wait?

Why not just say "Big Red Freakout" and be done with it?

Quote from: Trotsky on September 13, 2026, 10:17:46 AMBack on topic: do we have the same broadcast situation for this season as last, or have there been changes?

It's more expensive because the 4-letter did more work to solidify its monopolistic position & practices.

Monthly/Annual fee goes up Sept. 17:

QuoteESPN Select (formerly known as ESPN+), will also get a price increase of a dollar a month, going from $12.99 to $13.99.  The annual subscription will go up by $10 a year, from $129.99 to $139.99.

Quote from: jeff '84 on August 31, 2026, 10:00:23 PMhttps://apple.news/A2zXnKhehRrWzYNSvjSKcjQ

MapQuest Downloads Soar After Company's Refusal To Rename Lake Ontario

Last year, I was returning a rental car in El Paso and I landed on some radio station that played several MapQuest commercials because ad breaks on terrestrial radio (excluding public stations and fire-and-brimstone jesus channels) are incredibly frequent these days. So there must have been a marketing budget before this.

"Mapquest ads on the radio" gave off so much 1999 vibes, I started thinking about Lou Bega.

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Quote from: Weder on July 28, 2026, 05:51:07 PMDCA Terminal 1 is still a glorified bus station.

The walk to Metro at IAD is better than the walk to the L at ORD, much worse than the walk to the light rail at PDX (about 50 steps from baggage claim, if you've never been).

And as my daughter would say, the walk in any Japanese station is better than any walk here.

Come on and spend some money USA.

Just call it car infrastructure, and you can get as much money as is available.

Quote from: Weder on August 12, 2026, 01:32:50 PMSyracuse back on the schedule this season.

Let's see if their lacrosse program can stop being cowardly.

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Quote from: Trotsky on August 04, 2026, 12:19:50 PMDon't link to X.
Don't read the Sun.

Until such point as the three-to-five college hockey accounts all move to Bluesky or whatever the fuck, we're going to be using Twitter.

And stop calling it X. It's Twitter.

Actually, it's now Xitter.

Nope. I refuse to acknowledge that.

You do realize how to pronounce that, yes?

Isn't it the same?

more like a toilet but I still call it Twitter also

"Our main story tonight concerns Twitter. Or as it's been called since Elon Musk purchased it a few years ago, Twitter."

Deadnaming it for an entire episode is another example of John Oliver's writing staff's brilliance.

https://youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI

In the last 50 years, the two coaches who did the most for Cornell hockey morale were Mike Schafer and Ted Donato.

Quote from: stereax on July 17, 2026, 03:30:22 PMYou can only fly to IAD from Ithaca lol

But yeah I think if we start seriously planning this it'll be in the fall and I'll figure out my travel then

Fair enough. I keep losing track as to what airlines keep routes in and out of the tiny NY airports like Ithaca and Corning/Elmira. They keep tossing them around like a money-losing hot potato. For years it was either USAir or Continental only with one destination (like PIT or PHL or DTW), but now both United and Delta are competing in ITH, which is good news. I took the route to Pittsburgh from Ithaca that made a stop in Elmira - in the air for 12 minutes.

For an Albany flight, all 3 Washington airports have nonstop options.

 

Avoid IAD if you can (depending on where the friends live). It's a long walk inside the airport tunnels to Metro followed by a long hour on the Metro to get to the actual District. DCA is so much more convenient for both arrivals and departures (6 Metro stops to the arena).

For an Albany flight, BWI has plenty of direct Southwest flights and can be reached via Maryland commuter rail or a $15 Amtrak ticket. 30 minutes.

You can do Amtrak and change trains at NYP, just book ahead, otherwise it can be pricier than flights. Or there are plenty of nice $25 buses to NY from DC's Union Station or DuPont Circle and then Amtrak to Albany. Again, book at least 3 weeks in advance.

Quote from: underskill on July 01, 2026, 11:59:36 AMI hope those aren't new fonts for the jerseys

At least the 3s look like 3s instead of the unholy offspring of 3 & 7.

ALERT ALERT

UNIFORM NUMBERS ABOVE 39

I hate this timeline

Veilleux didn't change his number to 15, and I'm going to be mad about this all summer.

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Quote from: ugarte on June 26, 2026, 01:17:02 PMI can't believe I didn't know that Ryan Hughes' son was on the incoming roster. I saw Ryan score four goals in a 5-4 loss to BC at Lynah.

"Hughes your Daddy!" clap-clap-clap-clap-clap

As a freshman in 1992, the first semester after he left, several Lynah vets told me how much they missed screaming "HUUUUUUUUUUUUGHES" when he got the puck at key moments.

Similarly, if you want your athletic kids to be popular with fans, name them something with an "oooo" sound: Lou, Mookie, Raoul, Boo-urns, etc

Pretty sure that Hughes played his senior year ('92-93), though he may have wished he hadn't. That was a rough time to be a fan and it can't have been easy to be on the ice, either.

Memory: what a bitch.  Especially of that year for CU hockey