I don't think I said I wasn't going to sit in the stands...
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Hockey / Re: 18 season tickets still available
October 22, 2007, 04:18:05 PM
There are at least 50 tickets sitting over there right now. I'm not buying 'em. The ticket office has screwed up too many years now and I'm kind of hoping they don't sell out season tix by this weekend.
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Hockey / Re: 18 season tickets still available
October 22, 2007, 10:01:24 AM
Exhibit #269 why the Ticket Office is broken... no one I know on the wait list has been contacted yet.
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Hockey / Re: CNNSI On Campus Article - The Line Dance
October 24, 2006, 08:20:34 AM
[quote RichH]
Also, way to even think one femtosecond about the band. No, those tubas won't need to actually take up any vertical space. Symmetry be damned, they could've made the band feel like they *belonged* somewhere for once.[/quote]
Yes, the band was really forgotten about in this addition. It pained me to look over there and see them cramped both against the wall and the ceiling. On the other hand, it's fun to watch those brass instruments blast the foam off the roof and it rain onto their old seats in A. :-)
Also, way to even think one femtosecond about the band. No, those tubas won't need to actually take up any vertical space. Symmetry be damned, they could've made the band feel like they *belonged* somewhere for once.[/quote]
Yes, the band was really forgotten about in this addition. It pained me to look over there and see them cramped both against the wall and the ceiling. On the other hand, it's fun to watch those brass instruments blast the foam off the roof and it rain onto their old seats in A. :-)
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Hockey / Re: CNNSI On Campus Article - The Line Dance
October 23, 2006, 09:46:16 PM
[quote ebilmes] not realizing that the top rows of the sections still provide good views of the ice[/quote]
This USED to be true. I sat in B row 12 a couple of years ago but with the addition of the new rows I can say that Section B, row 17 (and probably rows 15 & 16) stinks. The slope of the rows is much less in the new rows than it is for the existing rows. As a result there are heads blocking the first 4-6 feet of ice on the near boards (we couldn't see the ref when he was down on Saturday night). Besides, if you're over 5' tall, you can't actually stand on the bench if you happen to have seats right where the beams are (check it out next game)!
Looks like Athletics did their usual thorough job with (the approving of) the new design for Lynah.
This USED to be true. I sat in B row 12 a couple of years ago but with the addition of the new rows I can say that Section B, row 17 (and probably rows 15 & 16) stinks. The slope of the rows is much less in the new rows than it is for the existing rows. As a result there are heads blocking the first 4-6 feet of ice on the near boards (we couldn't see the ref when he was down on Saturday night). Besides, if you're over 5' tall, you can't actually stand on the bench if you happen to have seats right where the beams are (check it out next game)!
Looks like Athletics did their usual thorough job with (the approving of) the new design for Lynah.
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Hockey / Re: What I like about being a Big Red fan
September 28, 2005, 01:47:54 PM
... are the other fans.
Cheers to the original Nickerson has syphyllis sign, the 'ugly sweater' guy roasters and the 'color-university' (Brown) fans
Cheers to the original Nickerson has syphyllis sign, the 'ugly sweater' guy roasters and the 'color-university' (Brown) fans
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Hockey / Photos from last night
September 27, 2005, 09:05:06 AM
There's one on the cover of the sun... Anybody else have some pictures of the chaos that they'd be willing to post/share?
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Hockey / Re: News from the front… worst line ever
September 27, 2005, 12:06:00 AM
We don't blame YOU Beej. Here's a start: how about no season tickets for freshmen (the hockey diehard freshmen will get tickets somehow, I didn't have season tickets my first year in Ithaca and still managed to get to most games).
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Hockey / News from the front… worst line ever
September 27, 2005, 12:00:45 AM
You folks joining me in section B should start doing your hockey cheer homework.
By far the worst line in my 3 years here, and that’s coming from grad line #23 (roughly undergrad #200). How can 1300 pushing students be expected to squeeze through a single door at Lynah? What about all those fools pushing from the right who didn’t know there was a railing between them and the door? I saw numerous women fall down/get trampled/ twist their ankles. Some gave up halfway to the door -- either due to injuries, asthma/panic attacks or claustrophobia -- and tearfully screamed their way out the opposite direction of the chaotic mass.
The police directing traffic were good for preventing the car-vs.-pedestrian accidents intimated by last year’s procedure. However, the security manpower was clearly needed at the front. If you weren’t there, just picture a few hundred students crammed on the stairway leading up to the main doors outside of section A.
Afterwards (~45 minutes after the initial announcement) the police were re-deployed to front of Lynah where they were needed all along. But mass chaos was still in effect and it was hard for a handful of shoving officers to try to squeeze the remaining students on the steps into some semblance of a line. Clearly these were the people right at the borderline of receiving tickets and many were frustrated by the sudden changes in (shoving) procedure that the officers brought with them.
Grad students with line numbers around 100 were screwed the worst, as in all the chaos some representative from the athletic department decided an hour into it that they should be in an entirely different line (duh) and so those that actually made it into Lynah later found out that late arriving grads had leapfrogged them by way of the ‘new’ grad line forming by the ticket window.
Heard lots of chants along the way, lots of comments about Gene Nighman’s family. I certainly think it’s time for one of the injured students to step forward and sue the Athletic Department for negligence. Maybe then they will finally feel some pressure to get rid of some of the gratuitous leniency shown alumni Nighman (who is consistently cursed every year but usually survives the process because the students who firsthandedly observe the chaos end up with tickets and are content to hold onto them rather than risk some backhanded revocation of tickets for calling upon him to resign). Whether you ended up with a number or not, start writing those letters to the Cornell Daily Sun, even if we can’t get Mr. Nighman fired, it will definitely make for a good read throughout the week.
Mr. Nighman, if you’re reading this and want to have a roundtable session with eLynah faithful about what a better procedure might look like (especially one with a goal of minimizing injuries), you know where to reach us.
By far the worst line in my 3 years here, and that’s coming from grad line #23 (roughly undergrad #200). How can 1300 pushing students be expected to squeeze through a single door at Lynah? What about all those fools pushing from the right who didn’t know there was a railing between them and the door? I saw numerous women fall down/get trampled/ twist their ankles. Some gave up halfway to the door -- either due to injuries, asthma/panic attacks or claustrophobia -- and tearfully screamed their way out the opposite direction of the chaotic mass.
The police directing traffic were good for preventing the car-vs.-pedestrian accidents intimated by last year’s procedure. However, the security manpower was clearly needed at the front. If you weren’t there, just picture a few hundred students crammed on the stairway leading up to the main doors outside of section A.
Afterwards (~45 minutes after the initial announcement) the police were re-deployed to front of Lynah where they were needed all along. But mass chaos was still in effect and it was hard for a handful of shoving officers to try to squeeze the remaining students on the steps into some semblance of a line. Clearly these were the people right at the borderline of receiving tickets and many were frustrated by the sudden changes in (shoving) procedure that the officers brought with them.
Grad students with line numbers around 100 were screwed the worst, as in all the chaos some representative from the athletic department decided an hour into it that they should be in an entirely different line (duh) and so those that actually made it into Lynah later found out that late arriving grads had leapfrogged them by way of the ‘new’ grad line forming by the ticket window.
Heard lots of chants along the way, lots of comments about Gene Nighman’s family. I certainly think it’s time for one of the injured students to step forward and sue the Athletic Department for negligence. Maybe then they will finally feel some pressure to get rid of some of the gratuitous leniency shown alumni Nighman (who is consistently cursed every year but usually survives the process because the students who firsthandedly observe the chaos end up with tickets and are content to hold onto them rather than risk some backhanded revocation of tickets for calling upon him to resign). Whether you ended up with a number or not, start writing those letters to the Cornell Daily Sun, even if we can’t get Mr. Nighman fired, it will definitely make for a good read throughout the week.
Mr. Nighman, if you’re reading this and want to have a roundtable session with eLynah faithful about what a better procedure might look like (especially one with a goal of minimizing injuries), you know where to reach us.
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