Hockey no more popular now than last year

[Rita]

[quote mnagowski]

They tried to restart the team in 2004 but it members came off as whiney and douchey.

The spring of 2005 was a pretty exciting time to be on campus. A disco ball on top of the clock tower, a trip to the NCAAs, a hilarious and petty takeover of Day Hall, and a sudden resignation of the President.[/quote]

Disco ball? Did it have strobe lights?

That may top the pumpkin that was on the tower for a long time in the fall 1997/winter 1998.

[mnagowski]

[Josh '99]

[quote Rita][quote mnagowski]

They tried to restart the team in 2004 but it members came off as whiney and douchey.

The spring of 2005 was a pretty exciting time to be on campus. A disco ball on top of the clock tower, a trip to the NCAAs, a hilarious and petty takeover of Day Hall, and a sudden resignation of the President.[/quote]

Disco ball? Did it have strobe lights?

That may top the pumpkin that was on the tower for a long time in the fall 1997/winter 1998.[/quote]Am I the only one who was on campus at the time who didn't give a rat's ass about a stupid pumpkin on the tower?

[Dafatone]

I was on campus for the disco ball, and honestly never even knew it was there.

[BMac]

I call bull, Datafone, unless you're one of those majors that doesn't go anywhere near ho plaza or west campus. (I'm an engineer, but I lived on West at the time).

There was an enormous, giantic, colossal crane in the middle of Ho Plaza there for a week trying to take down the ball. The Daily Sun said that the whole thing cost tens of thousands of dollars, because of the special crane.... it was a mess. They had to take the thing down in case it fell on someone's head, but there's few cranes that tall around Ithaca. Plus, Ho Plaza isn't made to hold such heavy objects, so there were special considerations for that.

In any case, there is no way that you could have walked anywhere near the tower and not noticed. Well, as I said, unless you never went that way...

[mnagowski]

I call bull as well. It was a huge ordeal due to the perceived safety issues of a glass object falling from such heights. (For some reason a pumpkin falling from the same heights was thought to be safer.)

And even if he never saw it, it was plastered all over the Sun. And even if you don't read said newspaper rag, surely an associate would surely bring it up to make conversation. The likelihood of not hearing about some sort of object on the top of the clocktower would be incredibly small.

[Trotsky]

[quote mnagowski]the perceived safety issues of a glass object falling from such heights. (For some reason a pumpkin falling from the same heights was thought to be safer.)[/quote]

Pumpkin shards hurt people all the time, it's just not widely reported.

[RatushnyFan]

The real question is student apathy - "None" increased from 26% to 31%.  Holy $hit!

And interest in lacrosse is plummeting despite having a good team.

Sample size is increasing but results are still +/- 4% so hard to make many real conclusions.

[dbilmes]

[quote RatushnyFan]The real question is student apathy - "None" increased from 26% to 31%.  Holy $hit!
[/quote]
I guess we just have to accept the fact that Cornell is not a jock school!