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Quote from: stereax on April 07, 2026, 03:13:31 PMQuote from: Weder on April 07, 2026, 02:48:46 PMDerraugh signs a contract extension.Hell yeah. Absolutely deserved.
https://cornellbigred.com/news/2026/4/6/cornell-signs-womens-ice-hockeys-doug-derraugh-91-to-contract-extension.aspx
Quote from: Chris H82 on March 25, 2026, 05:43:13 PMOn Tuesday, I bought 1 ticket for the regional game, in the Cornell section, via the "bigredtix" link that was from the CU athletics website. Only $40 per game, so a good price. BUT, there was no seating choices, and the confirmation email says "Your tickets will be sent to you in a separate email." No sign of that email as of 3:40 Mtn time on Wednesday. The email address for the confirmation looks legit (bigredtix@tickets.mail.cornell.edu), so I don't think it's a scam.
Has anyone else received (or not) their game tix that they ordered via this process? And I'm assuming they'll be a randomly assigned seat, or simply "grab a seat in Section (A or B or C or D)"?
Quote from: adamw on March 25, 2026, 12:33:50 PMFYI heard today that Cornell got in Monday to give themselves extra time to acclimate. Not sure how much difference it will make - but at least they're doing all they can.
Quote from: billhoward on March 17, 2026, 03:49:17 PM[Drifting:] From time to time medical doctors get uppity when academics want to be addressed as Doctor ("Dachtah" if from Long Island) and have to be reminded that the academic honorific came before the medical one.
Quote from: RichH on March 17, 2026, 01:57:56 PMQuote from: Weder on March 17, 2026, 11:41:28 AMQuote from: RichH on March 17, 2026, 12:12:37 AMShortstop Deli up until 2019-2020 had a digital counter displayed with the amount of time since they had last been closed...It was decades. When I heard they changed their 24-7 hours permanently, it was a gut punch that things were REALLY changing. That was something you could ALWAYS count on.
For me, it was when I heard Wegmans wasn't open 24/7 any longer lol
Preach. 29 of the first 31 years of my life, I lived within 5 miles of one Wegmans or another. I took countless trips during the graveyard shifts. It was always there for me. Such a shame.
Quote from: RichH on March 17, 2026, 12:12:37 AMShortstop Deli up until 2019-2020 had a digital counter displayed with the amount of time since they had last been closed...It was decades. When I heard they changed their 24-7 hours permanently, it was a gut punch that things were REALLY changing. That was something you could ALWAYS count on.
Quote from: stereax on March 16, 2026, 05:00:34 PMPart of the pain of being in the Ivy League is that we schedule fewer games... so each loss means more.
Quote from: Beeeej on March 16, 2026, 01:58:55 PMQuote from: Weder on March 16, 2026, 01:46:54 PMQuote from: Beeeej on March 16, 2026, 01:06:28 PMPep bands and marching bands generally pay a licensing fee per song directly to the song's publisher in return for the right to rearrange it, and that includes performance rights. So there's no need for separate payment to, or inclusion in someone else's agreement with, an aggregator like ASCAP or BMI.
And for what it's worth, to my knowledge, neither the organization of composers that owns ASCAP nor the PE firm that owns BMI has a Cornell alum in a high-level position.
Interesting! So is that potentially why it might take a while for the pep band to add new songs to its rotation? It's a budget issue?
Given that each song doesn't really cost that much - certainly not compared with uniforms and travel expenses - I doubt that's anywhere near as much of an obstacle as the fact that it takes a considerable amount of time and effort to arrange and learn a new song. And in Cornell's case, the pep band's repertoire is generally (though not exclusively) limited to a subset of the marching band's repertoire, which is partly because there's so much variation in pep band personnel from event to event. You don't want to be trying to play songs half the band hasn't seen before.
Quote from: Beeeej on March 16, 2026, 01:06:28 PMQuote from: Weder on March 16, 2026, 12:56:58 PMQuote from: The Rancor on March 16, 2026, 12:07:44 PMQuote from: ugarte on March 16, 2026, 11:53:20 AMQuote from: Trotsky on March 16, 2026, 11:09:52 AMDepends on motive. If they are innocently imitating, yes. If they are driven by profit, every fan could protest vociferously and the ROI would still demand they do it. MBAs cannot help themselves.This is didactic to the point of incoherence! Organic and sincere fan outrage is an indicator of where the profit lies! This is why you speak up! It's not like there is some payola involved that gets Cornell a fee to play certain songs during the break; if anything there's an expense to playing canned music. I am plenty anticapitalist but what's the point of doomsaying action?
I would not be at all surprised to learn that some Cornell donor profits in some way from the licence fee for playing the canned music during games. Such is the world.
Semi-tangent that I've always wondered -- is the pep band covered under some sort of university- or athletic-department-wide licensing agreement?
Pep bands and marching bands generally pay a licensing fee per song directly to the song's publisher in return for the right to rearrange it, and that includes performance rights. So there's no need for separate payment to, or inclusion in someone else's agreement with, an aggregator like ASCAP or BMI.
And for what it's worth, to my knowledge, neither the organization of composers that owns ASCAP nor the PE firm that owns BMI has a Cornell alum in a high-level position.
Quote from: The Rancor on March 16, 2026, 12:07:44 PMQuote from: ugarte on March 16, 2026, 11:53:20 AMQuote from: Trotsky on March 16, 2026, 11:09:52 AMDepends on motive. If they are innocently imitating, yes. If they are driven by profit, every fan could protest vociferously and the ROI would still demand they do it. MBAs cannot help themselves.This is didactic to the point of incoherence! Organic and sincere fan outrage is an indicator of where the profit lies! This is why you speak up! It's not like there is some payola involved that gets Cornell a fee to play certain songs during the break; if anything there's an expense to playing canned music. I am plenty anticapitalist but what's the point of doomsaying action?
I would not be at all surprised to learn that some Cornell donor profits in some way from the licence fee for playing the canned music during games. Such is the world.
Quote from: BearLover on March 15, 2026, 10:42:09 PMQuote from: Iceberg on March 15, 2026, 10:07:25 PMThere is not a single pizza place, or at least one that is open late, in Collegetown now?Quote from: BearLover on March 15, 2026, 09:16:10 PMIs there no longer a pizza place open super late? Used to be CTP, and Momma T's, both open well past midnight.
Only on the Commons, which is where several Cornell students go out now along with the IC ones
Quote from: stereax on March 15, 2026, 08:49:07 PMQuote from: Jeff Hopkins '82 on March 15, 2026, 08:09:25 PMI really don't care hahaha. I honestly don't mind the bodega fare - when I complain about nothing being open in Ithaca late, it's because you'd think in a college town you'd have anything open past 10 PM???Quote from: stereax on March 15, 2026, 07:24:48 PMBodega tradition lives on.Fair warning: That's going to be your meal in LP, too, unless you want deep-fried bar munchies. Because no restaurants are open late there.
