A New Lynah

[Jim Hyla]

Please review all that has been said about this before. It's not so easy to just enclose the end. The town could require that the whole rink be brought up to current code. That means increasing the space between rows and seats, thus completely changing the rink.

[jtwcornell91]

Greg Berge '85 wrote:
Clarkson isn't all that comfortable.  A few of the soulless neomonstrosities are cushy (Conte), but a seat's a seat.

Doesn't Cheel have cupholders?

[RichS]

What is it you find uncomfortable about Cheel?  They have done a very good job at displaying history on Cheel's walls and with the banners.

Is it Walker, nee Clarkson Arena?  No...not the same ambience for sure.  But Walker had become outmoded, and too expensive to maintain.  As I have pointed out before, Clarkson needed a new "student center" on the hill campus, and Cheel Arena is just one part of the Cheel Campus center.  Point is that the two needs coincided, and there were additional concerns to be addressed besides the arena.

Walker is still in use, by the way.  
:-D

[CowbellGuy]

Personally I find the Maalox green walls uncomfortable ::barf::

[Josh '99]

Hmm...  I have to say that one thing I like about Cheel is how the arena is integrated into the campus center.

That paint is foul, though.  :-P

[Robb \'94]

Individual seating instead of benches stinks.  Actually, now that I think about it, I guess it's really the modern fire codes that stink.  Even if you put benches in a new arena, they still wouldn't let you pack in enough people to get the place really rocking.  Still, the high, square concrete walls and brightness of Cheel remind me more of a tiled indoor swimming facility than a hockey barn.  And that hospital-green paint.... ::yark::

[Keith K \'93]

Robb has it completely right.  Modern fire codes suck. (I realize I might feel differently if I were actually in a burning building...)  Too much legroom, aisles are too wide.  Some of the problem is the customers though.  I doubt fire codes require seats to be as wide as they tend to be these days but customers apparently want them that way.  As a result fewer seats per area => less noise, atmosphere.

Lot's of people seem to rave about hanging scoreboards.  They just put one in Achilles at Union.  Excuse me - at so-and-so's Rink at Achilles Center.   For me they just mean a ceiling that's very high which somehow doesn't contain crowd noise weel enough.  Hope we never get one at Cornell.

Cheel would definitely be better if they repainted it in Clarkson green.

[MikeR CCT \'91]

I would be happy if developers had installed a section of the old Walker into the Cheel.  No need for stinking cupholders when a rafter is nearby.

[Al DeFlorio]

Keith K '93 wrote:
Cheel would definitely be better if they repainted it in Clarkson green.

Or Carnelian.B-]

[Mark]

Murray?

[Al DeFlorio]

Mark wrote:

Murray?

I'm thinking LeNeveu.

[ugarte]

Al DeFlorio wrote:

Mark wrote:

Murray?

I'm thinking LeNeveu.

For all we know it may be Varteressian.  Age certainly isn't going to say.

[CowbellGuy]

One of you is right :-P

[Al DeFlorio]

big red apple wrote:

Al DeFlorio wrote:

Mark wrote:

Murray?

I'm thinking LeNeveu.

For all we know it may be Varteressian.  Age certainly isn't going to say.

Perhaps, but I seem to recall an article or such somewhere saying LeNeveu's decision between Cornell and Harvard was...um...rather strongly influenced by the Lynah experience during his campus visit.

[DisplacedCornellian]

huh?