Campaign To Stop Recorded Music At Lynah

[marty]

But: This battle against music all the time the players aren't playing sort of ended around Y2K. This fan-friendly quote-unquote stuff goes hand in hand with sled pulling at intermission and shooting pucks from center ice at intermission.

The sled-pulling and puck shooting at intermission isn't detracting from the atmosphere during play. I can live with the piped in music then too, though I think it's unnecessary.

Would love to see the Skating Bear(s) again, sometime.

Especially the senior year bears during the second intermission on Senior Night.

[BearLover]

I would love to see the skating bears back. Sad that they're gone.

Can someone comment on how the alcohol process works at Lynah? I wonder if they read my post about increasing attendance a couple months ago in which I recommended opening up alcohol sales to the full rink 

Do they sell to students? Do they let students bring beer back into the student sections?

[andyw2100]

I would love to see the skating bears back. Sad that they're gone.

Can someone comment on how the alcohol process works at Lynah? I wonder if they read my post about increasing attendance a couple months ago in which I recommended opening up alcohol sales to the full rink 

Do they sell to students? Do they let students bring beer back into the student sections?

Would also love to see the skating bears back. I wonder what the issue is there.

Hoping Stereax or someone else who is closer to the students will answer the question about selling to students.

From what I've seen, I'm not sure how they could exclude the students, unless they are using an age older than 21 as the minimum (which I'm not sure would even be legal.) They probably could prevent the students from bringing alcohol into the student sections I guess.

[stereax]

I would love to see the skating bears back. Sad that they're gone.

Can someone comment on how the alcohol process works at Lynah? I wonder if they read my post about increasing attendance a couple months ago in which I recommended opening up alcohol sales to the full rink 

Do they sell to students? Do they let students bring beer back into the student sections?

Would also love to see the skating bears back. I wonder what the issue is there.

Hoping Stereax or someone else who is closer to the students will answer the question about selling to students.

From what I've seen, I'm not sure how they could exclude the students, unless they are using an age older than 21 as the minimum (which I'm not sure would even be legal.) They probably could prevent the students from bringing alcohol into the student sections I guess.

There are skating bears... but they're usually the little kids during women's game intermissions. I dunno if that's what you're talking about? And fwiw I don't mind having little intermission games/piped in music either - gives the band a chance to breathe and keeps the energy buzzing between periods.

Yes, they sell alcohol to students. The guys next to me during the playoffs had wristbands and beers, and that's inside the student section. They check your ID once, then give you a wristband to make it easier. I think they're trying to only do it for certain games (Harvard, etc) just because it's a pain in the ass to ask 19-year-old service staff to ID check people.

[andyw2100]

There are skating bears... but they're usually the little kids during women's game intermissions. I dunno if that's what you're talking about?

The skating bears we old-timers are referring to were students usually dressed at least partially in Cornell hockey garb, and in big bear costumes. They would skate around and entertain the crowd between periods.

Attached is an image from October 2019.

[stereax]

There are skating bears... but they're usually the little kids during women's game intermissions. I dunno if that's what you're talking about?

The skating bears we old-timers are referring to were students usually dressed at least partially in Cornell hockey garb, and in big bear costumes. They would skate around and entertain the crowd between periods.

Ah... then no. Never seen that, sadly.

[andyw2100]

Apropos the bear discussion and this time of year...

The attached photo is my daughter, Bevi, now 32, Class of 2016, in 1996 on the Lake Placid ice with both bears.

We had developed a relationship with Margot P. (the student in the bear outfit) during the season at Lynah. We would bring Bevi down to the glass and Margot would skate over to entertain her and the other young kids. I remember Margot was always careful to cover her mouth, so the bear's teeth wouldn't scare the little kids.

At Lake Placid Margot suggested taking Bevi out on the ice with her between periods.

In spite of the look on her face in this picture, Bevi loved it! When she came off the ice she strung more words together than she ever had before: "Bear - Out on ice - people clap."

[jtwcornell91]

There are skating bears... but they're usually the little kids during women's game intermissions. I dunno if that's what you're talking about?

The skating bears we old-timers are referring to were students usually dressed at least partially in Cornell hockey garb, and in big bear costumes.

Some of the old-timers are the same people as said skating bears. ;-) (not me)

[jtwcornell91]

No true PhD ever insists on being referred to as "Doctor."  It's tacky.  That's an affection for the people whose companies buy them mail order degrees from the Kennedy School of Public Administration.

I think it's a German thing, to be called "Herr Doktor Professor."  But we don't do that in America or the ice hockey rink.

Most US-based academics (especially women) would be annoyed to be called Mr. or Ms. in a professional context.  Heck, when I was a grad student I was miffed that a seminar announcement referred to an undergraduate presenter as "Miss" rather than "Ms."

[andyw2100]

There are skating bears... but they're usually the little kids during women's game intermissions. I dunno if that's what you're talking about?

The skating bears we old-timers are referring to were students usually dressed at least partially in Cornell hockey garb, and in big bear costumes.

Some of the old-timers are the same people as said skating bears. ;-) (not me)

And, if I'm not mistaken, posting in this thread.

[Beeeej]

There are skating bears... but they're usually the little kids during women's game intermissions. I dunno if that's what you're talking about?

The skating bears we old-timers are referring to were students usually dressed at least partially in Cornell hockey garb, and in big bear costumes.

Some of the old-timers are the same people as said skating bears. ;-) (not me)

And, if I'm not mistaken, posting in this thread.

I don't know anything, I just drove a cab.

[Al DeFlorio]

No true PhD ever insists on being referred to as "Doctor."  It's tacky.  That's an affection for the people whose companies buy them mail order degrees from the Kennedy School of Public Administration.

I think it's a German thing, to be called "Herr Doktor Professor."  But we don't do that in America or the ice hockey rink.

Most US-based academics (especially women) would be annoyed to be called Mr. or Ms. in a professional context.  Heck, when I was a grad student I was miffed that a seminar announcement referred to an undergraduate presenter as "Miss" rather than "Ms."

Correct.  I serve on a committee with a woman who is a tenured and chaired professor at Harvard Business School...the first.  She is Dr. H.  Insists on it.  Rightly so.  Tough slog for a woman to achieve that back in the day.

[Jim Hyla]

What is the disdain for hockey rinks with legroom, chairback seats, sightlines (you can see into all four corners)

I've never heard any of them being called as "having great atmosphere."

While I've heard over and over, players and others saying how great it is in Lynah.

Do you think the students would stand on the seats to watch the game?

No, they'd be sitting, where it's much easier to drift to your phone.

Besides I can't imagine me trying to move around sections with seats to distribute newspapers.

No, as old as I am, I'd rather take atmosphere over convenience any day, at least until I'm dead.

And by the way, as mentioned on another thread, the great new Union rink has worse sight lines than Lynah.

[Scersk '97]

I am only here to say fie to Bill Howard and his defeatist attitude. Piped-in music is a scourge and must be eliminated.

[andyw2100]

I've exchanged a few email messages with Dr. Moore in the past few days. Then tonight in Lake Placid I introduced myself to her between periods 2 and 3, and we chatted about the atmosphere at Lynah for close to ten minutes.

She is definitely open to trying to improve things. I mentioned that many of us on eLynah feel similarly, and that she may be hearing from more people. She said that she understands our concerns, and doesn't really need to hear from a lot more people. She was very warm and quite interested. I was trying not to monopolize her time or take advantage of the chance meeting, but she stayed and even asked questions after I had given her the chance to leave by thanking her.

One of the things I said in a follow up email was that perhaps next year they could try a game with no piped in music, as an experiment. I suggested that the Clarkson game, if Clarkson was bringing their band, would be an excellent choice. She was very open to the idea in email, and then tonight it sounded like she'll actually do that. (No promises of course, but I think it will happen.)

So at this point I think there's probably no need for anyone else to write, as she gets it.

Late in the conversation I said something about Lynah never getting back to exactly the way it was in the mid-80s, and that I understand that some things are just gone and not coming back, like the pounding on the glass. She basically said she liked the pounding on the glass, and actually encouraged it when she was at Colgate! I said if she wanted to allow that at Lynah all she'd have to do is stop having the ushers enforce the prohibition against glass pounding and then let a few of the students in the front of sections B, C, and D know, and glass pounding could again be a thing at Lynah. So that could happen too.

I really got the feeling that she was listening and that she cared and wants what we want. Let's see what happens next year.