Opponent News 18-19

[upprdeck]

cornell does not offer free tuition to kids of employees.

[dag14]

Cornell does give a tuition benefit to the children of its employees, at least it did when my kids were in college in the early 2000's.  It is not 100% of the cost of college and the amount of the benefit depends on when the employee started working at Cornell.  I believe you currently need to be employed full time for 10 years before the benefit vests and the benefit can be applied to other schools -- not just attending Cornell.

[Weder]

I believe staff had to be hired before 1983 to get the full tuition benefit. Not sure about the date for faculty. I attended under the 100% benefit, but CU always managed to find $1,000 or so each semester in "fees" that were not covered by the benefit.

If I remember corrcectly, the fees might have been partially covered by the New York State TAP grants I got.

[upprdeck]

I think its 30/50 now

[Swampy]

Seems I may have opened a can of worms by bringing this up. For those who are unaware of the way things commonly work in higher ed these days, there are several gotcha's in any discussion of tuition. Chief among these are "fees." Especially at state universities it's common for tuition increases to be modest, while "fees" go through the roof. This practice allows university administrators and politicians to pat themselves on the back ("Look at what a good job we've done keeping the cost of college low: tuition at weather vane U. has gone up on 3% over the last 5 years.") while the real cost of attending increases due to fees for computer labs, the new gym, a faculty/staff parking garage, scholarship funds, and what have you.

But, of course, I'm sure Cornell's administration would never stoop to such deceptive practices.

[dag14]

Cornell absolutely does distinguish between tuition and fees....When my first child entered CALS in 2000, fees constituted about half of the non-housing/dining bill we had to pay.  Which took us by surprise and therefore required loans since we had only budgeted to pay room and board thinking "tuition" was free.  I started at Cornell in the 70's so my kids went to school tuition free.  Who knew it would actually cost us less to send a kid to the Hotel School than to the Ag School.

[Swampy]

Interesting that PHY are #1, 3, 5 in penalty minutes per game. Ivy teams lead the nation in penalty minutes per game? Who'd of thunk it?

[French Rage]

Interesting that PHY are #1, 3, 5 in penalty minutes per game. Ivy teams lead the nation in penalty minutes per game? Who'd of thunk it?

They have the boorish manners of a Yalie.

[Jim Hyla]

Q beats BU in last couple of seconds. Watched most of the third period. Both defenses were terrible.

Reasonably large gap from our #8 to Q's #7 in PWR. We are on top of a large closely bunched teams in PWR. Will see how it works out at the end of the day.

Q to #6 with the win

[Swampy]

This article has been up for some time, but we missed it. Ty Pelton-Byce has transferred from Harvard to Wisconsin.

The article says:

The 6-foot-2, 195-pound forward played two seasons at Harvard, but then was ruled academically ineligible.

I'll leave it to you readers to explain what it takes to be academically ineligible at an institution with notorious grade inflation and related academic coddling of students.

[Trotsky]

From a post on USCHO:

Interesting that every Harvard recruit that committed early (2015) to matriculate to the school in 2019 is no longer committed. Academics can always play a factor here, but:

- Marshall Warren (felt better pasture at BC)
- Ryan Doolin, Brad Cocca, and Jon Russell (likely left in search of more playing time)

[Iceberg]

Meanwhile, Northern Michigan is hosting Mankato this weekend. Mankato is right above Cornell in the pairwise right now and a Northern Michigan sweep would obviously be the most ideal thing.

[BearLover]

From a post on USCHO:

Interesting that every Harvard recruit that committed early (2015) to matriculate to the school in 2019 is no longer committed. Academics can always play a factor here, but:

- Marshall Warren (felt better pasture at BC)
- Ryan Doolin, Brad Cocca, and Jon Russell (likely left in search of more playing time)

I don't quite understand what either of those two sets of reasons ("pasture"?) (more playing time where?) actually means. But Harvard's and Cornell's recruiting philosophies are basically polar opposites at this point.

[marty]

It's not on CHN but the postponed Mayor's cup is taking place tonight in Albany at the TU Center.  The women Engineers are up 2-0 at the second intermission vs. Union.

Men's game will go off at 6. This is the 7th iteration of this tournament the successor to the Governor's Cup.  It's likely 2 or 3 of mayors of Troy,  Albany and Schenectady will be in the house.

To my knowledge the Governor never showed at the tourney named in his honor.

2014 version ended like this.

[ugarte]

To my knowledge the Governor never showed at the tourney named in his honor.

if you want him to come, tell him deblasio hates it.