Cornell's new baseball stadium - "Booth Field"

[billhoward]

On the legacy athletic fields-buildings site (Hoy, Schoellkopf, Teagle, Lynah, Friedman and the decreasing # of Upper Alumni fields)

Speaking of Teagle Hall, I didn't realize until a couple of weeks ago how Walter Teagle the source of his fortune and his role in WWII.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Teagle  If anyone in Cornell's history deserves to be cancelled, he must be near the top of the list.

Cornell's big machers (maybe bad phrasing, okay) of the early to mid-20th century as financial supporters and as trustees were in some cases men worldly in their dislikes, of Blacks, Jews, foreigners in general, women if it meant taking Cornell space away from men, and people to the left of Kenneth Keating and Jacob Javits (NYS Republican senators 1950s-1980). All covered in Cornell: A History, 1940-2015 by Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick. Much of Cornell's support and standing as trustees went to men of industry until circa 1960, when Wall Street money moved in. An outlier was Cornell's biggest donor, Chuck Feeney Hotel '56, he of the duty-free shops.

[George64]

On the legacy athletic fields-buildings site (Hoy, Schoellkopf, Teagle, Lynah, Friedman and the decreasing # of Upper Alumni fields)

Speaking of Teagle Hall, I didn't realize until a couple of weeks ago how Walter Teagle the source of his fortune and his role in WWII.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Teagle  If anyone in Cornell's history deserves to be cancelled, he must be near the top of the list.

Cornell's big machers (maybe bad phrasing, okay) of the early to mid-20th century as financial supporters and as trustees were in some cases men worldly in their dislikes, of Blacks, Jews, foreigners in general, women if it meant taking Cornell space away from men, and people to the left of Kenneth Keating and Jacob Javits (NYS Republican senators 1950s-1980). All covered in Cornell: A History, 1940-2015 by Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick. Much of Cornell's support and standing as trustees went to men of industry until circa 1960, when Wall Street money moved in. An outlier was Cornell's biggest donor, Chuck Feeney Hotel '56, he of the duty-free shops.

Come for the sports talk, stay for the thread drift.

[ugarte]

Speaking of Teagle Hall, I didn't realize until a couple of weeks ago how Walter Teagle the source of his fortune and his role in WWII.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Teagle  If anyone in Cornell's history deserves to be cancelled, he must be near the top of the list.

Right up there with anti-Semite and educational misogynist Goldwin Smith.  Smith told AD White that admitting women would cause Cornell to "sink at once from the rank of a University to that of an Oberlin or a high school" and that all "hopes of future greatness" would be lost by admitting women.
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sexist sure but the sideswipe on oberlin is funny

[billhoward]

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sexist sure but the sideswipe on oberlin is funny[/quote]
He should show up here more often. Some of the humor ("Oberlin") would play.

[Trotsky]

On the legacy athletic fields-buildings site (Hoy, Schoellkopf, Teagle, Lynah, Friedman and the decreasing # of Upper Alumni fields)

Speaking of Teagle Hall, I didn't realize until a couple of weeks ago how Walter Teagle the source of his fortune and his role in WWII.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Teagle  If anyone in Cornell's history deserves to be cancelled, he must be near the top of the list.

Cornell's big machers (maybe bad phrasing, okay) of the early to mid-20th century as financial supporters and as trustees were in some cases men worldly in their dislikes, of Blacks, Jews, foreigners in general, Jews (just in case I forgot), of women if it meant taking Cornell space away from men, and people to the left of Kenneth Keating and Jacob Javits (NYS GOP senators 1950s-1980). All covered in Cornell: A History, 1940-2015 by Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick. Much of Cornell's support and standing as trustees went to men of industry until circa 1960, when Wall Street money moved in. An outlier was Cornell's biggest donor, Chuck Feeney Hotel '56, he of the duty-free shops.

In 200 years people will recoil in horror at us.  Maybe it will be animal cruelty, or our wasting of finite resources, or our blithe lack of concern at the billions in poverty in the midst of our plenty.

On a long enough timeline, everyone is a monster.

[scoop85]

On the legacy athletic fields-buildings site (Hoy, Schoellkopf, Teagle, Lynah, Friedman and the decreasing # of Upper Alumni fields)

Speaking of Teagle Hall, I didn't realize until a couple of weeks ago how Walter Teagle the source of his fortune and his role in WWII.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Teagle  If anyone in Cornell's history deserves to be cancelled, he must be near the top of the list.

Cornell's big machers (maybe bad phrasing, okay) of the early to mid-20th century as financial supporters and as trustees were in some cases men worldly in their dislikes, of Blacks, Jews, foreigners in general, Jews (just in case I forgot), of women if it meant taking Cornell space away from men, and people to the left of Kenneth Keating and Jacob Javits (NYS GOP senators 1950s-1980). All covered in Cornell: A History, 1940-2015 by Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick. Much of Cornell's support and standing as trustees went to men of industry until circa 1960, when Wall Street money moved in. An outlier was Cornell's biggest donor, Chuck Feeney Hotel '56, he of the duty-free shops.

In 200 years people will recoil in horror at us.  Maybe it will be animal cruelty, or our wasting of finite resources, or our blithe lack of concern at the billions in poverty in the midst of our plenty.

On a long enough timeline, everyone is a monster.

In 200 years we may have burned up the planet sufficiently that none of this may matter.

[marty]

On the legacy athletic fields-buildings site (Hoy, Schoellkopf, Teagle, Lynah, Friedman and the decreasing # of Upper Alumni fields)

Speaking of Teagle Hall, I didn't realize until a couple of weeks ago how Walter Teagle the source of his fortune and his role in WWII.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Teagle  If anyone in Cornell's history deserves to be cancelled, he must be near the top of the list.

Cornell's big machers (maybe bad phrasing, okay) of the early to mid-20th century as financial supporters and as trustees were in some cases men worldly in their dislikes, of Blacks, Jews, foreigners in general, Jews (just in case I forgot), of women if it meant taking Cornell space away from men, and people to the left of Kenneth Keating and Jacob Javits (NYS GOP senators 1950s-1980). All covered in Cornell: A History, 1940-2015 by Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick. Much of Cornell's support and standing as trustees went to men of industry until circa 1960, when Wall Street money moved in. An outlier was Cornell's biggest donor, Chuck Feeney Hotel '56, he of the duty-free shops.

In 200 years people will recoil in horror at us.  Maybe it will be animal cruelty, or our wasting of finite resources, or our blithe lack of concern at the billions in poverty in the midst of our plenty.

On a long enough timeline, everyone is a monster.

Artificial turf from petrochemicals.... oh the humanity.

[billhoward]

Artificial turf from petrochemicals.... oh the humanity.

Coconut husks didn't work.

[Cop at Lynah]

It appears construction has started on the new baseball facility.  A bunch of heavy equipment has been busy at the new site

[David Harding]

The Ithaca Planning Board got its first look at the new computer and information science building on Tuesday.  The agenda item is toward the end of this long article covering the whole meeting.  
https://ithacavoice.com/2022/06/planning-board-recap-cornell-academic-building-apartments-green-lighted/

[Ken711]

It appears construction has started on the new baseball facility.  A bunch of heavy equipment has been busy at the new site

Amy more progress on the baseball site?

[Cop at Lynah]

A tremendous amount of dirt has been moved on the site.  It's hard to tell for sure, but it looks like you can start to see the shape of the "stadium" forming

[Ken711]

A tremendous amount of dirt has been moved on the site.  It's hard to tell for sure, but it looks like you can start to see the shape of the "stadium" forming

Thanks for the update!

[billhoward]

It appears construction has started on the new baseball facility.  A bunch of heavy equipment has been busy at the new site

Amy more progress on the baseball site?

The odds baseball-field construction is faster-paced than the game itself? If there's a need for speed, might it be to get sports away from academic buildings so as to avoid pollution?

[RichH]

It appears construction has started on the new baseball facility.  A bunch of heavy equipment has been busy at the new site

Amy more progress on the baseball site?

The odds baseball-field construction is faster-paced than the game itself? If there's a need for speed, might it be to get sports away from academic buildings so as to avoid pollution?

Avoid pollution for whom: those using the academic buildings or those using the athletic facilities? Moving all the sports facilities miles away from walkable central campus just creates more demand for motorized travel for the participants and officials, right?