[Off-topic] New West Campus Residential House names

[jeh25]

According to http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicles/2.28.02/WestCampus.html , "[The project]...will create five distinct houses, each named after a legendary Cornell faculty member."

I think we should start a campaign to have the 5 residential colleges named after famous Cornell sports figures. Would you rather live in Dryden, Harkness, McEneaney, Marinaro or Nieuwendyk House or would you rather live in Bethe, Sagan, Feynman, Morrison or Debye House?



 ::nut::

(Okay. So I'm really really bored and can't wait for tomorrow.)

[Greg Berge]

Personally, I think a Feynman house would be way... fricking... cool!  :-)

[Greg Berge]

> The houses will emphasize informal interaction with faculty members, opportunities for personal and intellectual growth, self-governance, social and cultural programming, privacy and independence.

As a proud UHall 5'er (I have no idea which Class of X building that is now), lemme tell ya... that's about as far from our Freshman atmosphere as you can get.

[littleredfan]

ah thats a whole bunch of nonsense...it won't do any of those. a house will not make upperclassmen care about personal/intellectual growth if they don't already... the uhalls right now have opportunities for faculty interaction, privacy, independence, and programming, just that few take advantage of it.

[Greg Berge]

Can't blame em for trying, but let's rewrite the project mission statement.

The houses will emphasize cramming after not rolling out of bed for that 9 am Ag quad class all semester, opportunities for massive consumption of alcohol and junk food, self-"governance" when your Friday date cancels at the last minute,  social and cultural diatribes, isolation and depression.

[Josh '99]

Greg Berge wrote:

> The houses will emphasize informal interaction with faculty members, opportunities for personal and intellectual growth, self-governance, social and cultural programming, privacy and independence.

So, uhh...  and there's beer, right?   :-D

[DeltaOne81]

I'm sooo with you on not being able to wait for tomorrow. How in the world do they expect me to put up with a Friday prelim and lab? grrrr

[jtwcornell91]

How about "the Residential Houses will be part of a lame attempt to become a clone of Harvard"?  (I'm still bitter that after ten years of trying, the administration finally found a plan that pissed off few enough people so they could set about dismantling the do-it-yourself college experience that made the Cornell of the late 20th century a great place to go to school.)

[Greg Berge]

John, I genuinely don't follow what you're saying.

(And I trust the students of today are doing everything they can to make their experience as self-guided as... well, as all college students have since the 12th century. ;-) )

[Lowell '99]

I actually think the houses may partially succeed in being more of a "living-learning" environment for the dorms, if only from self-selection.  Most upperclassmen are still going to move off campus, I'd imagine.