OT: Cornell to name new prez today

[Greg Berge]

How tall is he?

[littleredfan]

5'6"

[Hillel]

Big Red Apple sez: "Lehman is Cornell '77. He has to have some good memories of Cornell hockey, right?"

Hoooooboy, '77 is a fine vintage. Perhaps one of the finest CU sports salmon runs ever. I'm jealous. Not just good memories of another great hockey team (Ivy champs--women too). But think about this: Apart from the ugly football memories of getting fisted by Yale's Spagnola/Pagliaro and the period's numbing hoops malaise, '77 brought Cornell Ivy championships in soccer (badass team), crew (won IRA regatta too), baseball (cracked national top 25?!), and probably others sports that I'm forgetting. Shoot, even fencing, before its recent rude departure, was on fire then, winning the Ivies (and being national runner up a few years before). But most of all you get memories of watching (arguably) the greatest collegiate lacrosse team ever. Imagine two national championships in yer upperclass years. Heavenly.

[Jim Hyla]

Here's his online faculty bio:http://cgi2.www.law.umich.edu/_FacultyBioPage/facultybiopagenew.asp?ID=94 . Not much more than already listed. However I hope he rings true to his research papers, such as, "Desperately Seeking a Voice (Symposium: Leadership in Legal Education)". Maybe we can finally get some input with the AD.

[Beeeej]

5'9" on skates.

Beeeej

[littleredfan]

Ok, I know this is even more off topic, but this just came to my attention as I was reading the new Prez press release on www.cornell.edu.  Has anyone taken a look at Cornell's home page lately, and compared it to those of the other Ivies?  I think that save for perhaps Columbia's, ours is easily the nastiest, disgusting, pathetic excuse for a home page welcoming all the world to our school.

Who controls that home page and why does it stink so bad? (especially given the presence of creative, talented people on campus that could really make it look with the times)

[DeltaOne81]

Yeah, there has been discussed amoung the CIT student staff several times. We also submitted feedback and actually got the page improved to something where you could tell what was a link and what wasn't (kinda), and to something where the most obvious graphic on the page wasn't the "donate" one (how sketchy is that?).

Anyway, if you click Contact Cornell on the left, there's a feedback form. If a few people submit similar feedback, they tend to be rsponsive, but do the bear minimum to meet your suggestions.

[Beeeej]

They tend to be very defensive about it, though - many, MANY people wrote in when they first changed the design to suggest that it was overly-simplistic, poorly laid out, and just plain bad.  But if you didn't have any specific criticisms, they (justifiably, IMHO) responded with a request for more specific suggestions rather than just "the homepage sucks."

Some people's tastes are different from others (as evidenced by Hunter's love of the new "Whatever" Cornell logo), and so just saying they did a bad job isn't very constructive.  They might be very happy with the way it looks.

Beeeej

[Scott Kominkiewicz \'84]

Apart from the ugly football memories

Wasn't Joey Holland scoring touchdowns like crazy then?  At least we were still full-fledged Div. 1 at the time, not like the 1-AA insult that was thrown our way in 1982.

[Jim Hyla]

Syracuse newspaper article http://www.syracuse.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-6/1039945160151861.xml . I wonder where his daughter was undergrad? States his father was Cornellian, who?
I used printer format to get rid of nonsense on their page.

[JDeafv]

On the main Cornell website you can watch the video from the luncheon naming the new president.  If you start watching at minute 46 you can skip all but the hockey reference and continue watching to the end for a last minute hockey comment ... enjoy.

[Jim Hyla]

WOW
Is this wonderful or what. Second only to being able to listen to CU hockey, this is what makes the internet so great for me. Now that we have a true, hopefully, hockey fan close to the president-elect, maybe we can solve our problem. :-P

[Adam \'01]

I know it's great to be the king's son and everything, but why couldn't that kid just wait on line for hockey tickets like everyone else??

[Al DeFlorio]

His father:  Leonard Lehman, '49, according to Monday's Ithaca Journal.

[Will]

Adam '01 wrote:[Q]I know it's great to be the king's son and everything, but why couldn't that kid just wait on line for hockey tickets like everyone else??[/Q]
Because he's probably just a facetimer, albeit now a very powerful facetimer.  I hope I'm wrong, of course, but I'm betting that's the case.