ELynah Forum

more like columnist.

our own daily sun sex columnist was named one of the top 100 best and brightest student journalists in the US.

http://www.uwire.com/UWIRE100/jennabromberg.html

found via: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/21/cnnu.awards/index.html

MD   10
UVA   5                
7:30 left in 3rd


Princeton  7
Yale       3          
4:30 left in 3rd

[quote evilnaturedrobot]I seem to recall the ticket office requiring ejected students to return their tickets (so that the ticket office could resell them, despite refusing to refund the origional owner's money) on threat of judicial action.[/quote]

when i got tossed my last year up there (06-07), they demanded I return the tickets before the next weekend's games, but i was bursar-credited the value of the remaining tickets. there were only like 2 games left, so i got back the $25 or so that those tickets were worth.

of course, i just bought individual tickets from wherever and went to the games anyway.... i just avoided my former section.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/education/25brown.html?ex=1361682000&en=7deef454519f17ae&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

brown's now doing the same thing, no tuition under 60k, no loans under 100k.  there's likely some sort of phasing-out after 100k, i doubt that 101k gets you a more traditional loan-heavy aid package.  the article doesn't go into detail on it, so it very well might be a cliff at 100k, but i doubt it.

everyone probably already saw it, but in case you didn't, brown got in on the action too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/education/25brown.html?ex=1361682000&en=7deef454519f17ae&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

and the west coast ivy gets into the fray:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/20/pf/college/stanford_tuition.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes

very interesting.

unless I'm reading this totally wrong, the Cornell line should read:


COR   19   9-6-1   UNI   RPI   @QUN   @PRN   DRT   HVD


thanks for putting the list together.

cornell PP goal, Greening tip off a Nash shot, I think.

and a picture on SI.com

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0802/caught.in.the.act0201/content.4.html

another YouTube link to the chant, I think this one makes it a bit clearer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7VZY3XMDG0&NR=1

I found an early line for Duke -29.0 and an over/under of 158.

http://www.vegasinsider.com/college-basketball/odds/las-vegas/

from what i've heard, they do.  not 100% certain, but i'm pretty sure they do keep their boxes.

Team Cornell was one of 6 teams to complete the course, an incredible accomplishment!

Consider that 89 teams started the competition a little over a year ago, and that the field was narrowed down to 35 for the qualification events over the past 10 days or so.

Of those 35, 11 teams were considered strong enough to actually race, and 6 of those 11 finished the race.

The official results and standings won't be announced until tomorrow (like nyc94 said, the results will combine time with penalties for violating rules), but regardless how things turn out, completing the course is a tremendous accomplishment.

Congrats Team Cornell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evK8tJJGCNA

it's about 1:20 in.

To elaborate on Chris '03s statement above, what if the procedure for getting season tickets included a community service aspect?  What if the students who wanted guaranteed tickets had to perform an 8-hour day of service to a local organization?  

I realize it'd take some serious organization, but local organizations like homeless shelters, soup kitchens, Habitat for Humanity, and many others would be happy to utilize the captive labor.  I'd also be willing to bet that one of the community service organizations on campus would step up and organize it all.

I envision it like this: Students sign up for the line numbers, fully understanding that if they win a position in "line", then they have to do a days community service work.  The weekend of seat selection, students with line numbers arrive at 9:00am on Saturday morning to do their day of work.  There is a "line check" at 9:00 to determine that everyone is there.  The students leave for their day of work, going to various locations for the day (assume, for this argument at least, that there are pre-arranged places for people to go... like #s 1-25 go there, 25-45 go there, etc....).  After a day of work, everyone comes back to campus for a 7pm line check, at which point they begin doing seat selection.  The catch is that in order to be eligible to buy tickets, the students must have both their line number form AND a signed form from the leader of their service group.

I realize that you'd have to work out some kinks in there. For example, what do you do about kids who are unavailable to do their day of service due to respectable commitments (which is solved by the 4-spots-per-person thing now)?  What if you let students do their service on one of a few Saturdays, but still required that they bring both forms to get their tickets (or gave both forms to their proxy in line)?

In principle, would that be something that you (the Faithful) would support?  I'm honestly interested in your thoughts.  I personally think it'd be a pretty good system, as it would provide some genuine disincentive for the casual fan (aka facetimers) to get tickets because, "Oh, well, they're not that hard to get, and maybe I'll show up late to a few games this year...."  On the flip side, actual fans wouldn't hesitate at satisfying this requirement if that's what it took to get tickets.  Oh, and we could do some good in the community... which is nice.

What do you think?