Ticket prices

[jeh25]

[Q]Beau Parks Wrote:
Do you know Professor Maas?  Do you know that he's the faculty advisor to the hockey team?  Are you at all aware of what he's contributed to the program?  Obviously not.
-Beau[/q]

Prof Maas' notable contributions to the hockey team are independent of, and in no way excuse any allegated sexual misconduct, if such behavior occurred. Your decision to commingle the two separate, independent issues is disturbing.

While the varacity of the formal allegations against Maas are debatable, he does have a bit of a reputation on campus. I was always willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until a friend told of a very minor incident she personally had with him.

While we could debate the extent of his behavior until the cows come home, I think most of us can agree that his reputation is not entirely above reproach, nor does his contribution to the hockey team in any way speak to his (potential mis?) treatment of female students.

[Facetimer]

[Q]Beau Parks Wrote:

Do you know that he's the faculty advisor to the hockey team?  Are you at all aware of what he's contributed to the program?

-Beau[/q]

I bet Beau Parks is Jim Maas.

Hey Beau, how about you retire you old bastard sex offender.

"Maas had repeatedly behaved unprofessionally and inappropriately in his relationships with the complainants ... his behavior constituted sexual harassment." Maas v. Cornell University, 94 N.Y. 2d. 87, 90 (1999).

But I guess we should take it easy on him because he is the team's faculty advisor.

::asshole::

[Beau Parks]

Why not post the outcome of the lawsuit?  

You should take it easy on him because he's a good guy and because you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

It's disappointing that you've turned a forum for hockey fans into a theater for your brainless attacks.  


http://www.cir-usa.org/recent_cases/maas_v_cornell.html

http://www.cir-usa.org/articles/cir_docketreport_maas_8-95.htm

"THE CASE READS LIKE A TWISTED VERSION OF THE SALEM WITCH TRIALS, ONLY THIS TIME THE 'WITCH' IS A PROFESSOR AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY AND HIS ACCUSERS ARE FORMER STUDENTS EGGED ON BY SOME MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S STUDIES PROGRAM."

LINDA CHAVEZ, USA TODAY

I apologize to all of the fans who are having to sift through this nonsense to find some news about Cornell hockey, but Dr. Maas is a friend and I believe he deserves some defense.

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[Q]Beau Parks Wrote:

It's disappointing that you've turned a forum for hockey fans into a theater for your brainless attacks.  
[/q]

Yet you are the one quoting from USA Today and providing articles from the Center for Individual Rights.  ::screwy::

[Beau Parks]

Yes.  And you're the one anonymously posting dismissed law suits and attacking people you obviously lack the credentials to attack.  That takes real guts, my anonymous friend.  Real guts.

[Scott]

When I was a freshman in 1992 BEFORE the lawsuit, I heard about Maas' reputation.  Most of his TAs were women and as I recall, they were very attractive.  Much of the reputation that I knew of was speculation and third hand stories.

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[Q]Beau Parks Wrote:

 Yes.  And you're the one anonymously posting dismissed law suits and attacking people you obviously lack the credentials to attack.  That takes real guts, my anonymous friend.  Real guts.[/q]

Maas was the Plaintiff alleging breach of contract against the University.  When the suit was dismissed, Maas was the loser.  I guess the Center for Individual Rights didn't summarize that part of the case for you.

As for me, we can debate my credentials at a later time.

[Greg Berge]

IIRC, Maas' female associates and former TAs were virtually unanimous in their vociferous support of him and dismissal of the charges.  Although we'll never really know, in the end it looked like he'd been railroaded by somebody with an unrelated grudge against him.

[Dart~Ben]

Frankly I'm not a fan of the quarter system. Maybe it's cause I spent 13 years (including Kindergarten) on semesters, but even after all 4 years the Dartmouth schedule is just odd.

Freshmen are just now showing up, graduation isn't until mid-June, and Christmas Break is basically the month of December with only 2-3 days off in January depending on what day of the week New Year's falls.

Sophomore summer was fun, but I'll always remember my freshman and senior years more. And it's not like the campus was its regular self - everything ran on reduced hours, the class schedule was limited (though History of Baseball was the best class ever), the paper only printed twice a week (not that anyone read it), etc. Oh, and the standard class load at Dartmouth was 3 a term, and you were able to take up to 3 terms each with +/- 1 class (my senior spring I only took the two history classes I needed for the double major). General agreement among the student body was that taking 4 classes in a 10-week quarter was painful, never did it myself though had plenty of friends who did.

Basically, I'd stick with the semesters.

But that has nothing to do with ticket prices. FWIW, Dartmouth students, grad and undergrad both, get in free to all home athletic events by showing their ID. A minimum of 400 are guaranteed to get into the student sections, then they keep admitting students til the SRO's are gone (ie, the 401st student will get in as long as there is are SRO tickets left - if SRO's are gone then that student is SOL). A few hockey games (usually Harvard and Princeton, sometimes Vermont too) they had to turn away late arriving students at the door, but it hasn't become a regular phenomenon. It'll be interesting to see how many games sellout at Thompson Arena this year.

Course it'd be amazing to see the fire marshall turn the other way and let em keep coming. Last year's Harvard game could've had 5000+ easily. It would've been sweet to see a crowd like that, which was allowed back in the old days (Thompson Arena record is 5,048 against Brown in 1981)