Slope Day - tix for alumni

[Scersk '97]

[Q]RatushnyFan Wrote:
Thanks to Scersk and gobigred24 for responding to the question at hand with helpful information.
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So, since I'm kind of interested for future reference, what's the word on alums?

[RatushnyFan]

No response yet from the email address in the FAQ.  I'm trying to get set up with a current student as an alternative.  I'll keep you posted.

[Beeeej]

"Music"?  I thought you said it was Snoop Dogg.   ::nut::

Beeeej

[mjh89]

Theres been a lot of trouble with local HS kids trying to go to slope day (i know because i used to be one of them) especially Ithaca HS because its only about .5 miles away.

[RatushnyFan]

300 tix "reserved" for alumni .......... you have to go to the Alumni House at 8 am on Slope Day to purchase them.  They cross check your I.D. with the alumni database.

[nyiballs]

I wrote an angry yet constructive letter to the Slope Day Planning board this year.  Basically I told them that charging alum to come back to the campus was flat out insulting and offered some constructive alternatives for next year...  we'll see what happens.

[gobigred24]

Excellent idea.  Making it difficult for recent alums to come back and remember how much we loved East Hill is a great way to get us to start donating $$$

[CUlater 89]

[Q]gobigred24 Wrote:

 Excellent idea.  Making it difficult for recent alums to come back and remember how much we loved East Hill is a great way to get us to start donating $$$[/q]

What?  The university should make it easy for alums to come back for the sole purpose of drinking way too much alcohol and supplying it to underage students? ::rolleyes::

If you want to come back to remember the good times on East Hill, the university has plenty of other events that you could attend, for free.

[gobigred24]

I didn't say the administration should make it easy.  It just shouldn't make it more difficult.    And I do attend those other events as well.  But for recent grads (I finished up last May) with many friends still in Ithaca, Slope Day is a nice occassion to come back to.  Plus, I mean, its Snoop!

[KeithK]

[Q]gobigred24 Wrote:

 I didn't say the administration should make it easy.  It just shouldn't make it more difficult.    And I do attend those other events as well.  But for recent grads (I finished up last May) with many friends still in Ithaca, Slope Day is a nice occassion to come back to.  Plus, I mean, its Snoop![/q]Don't you get it?  The administration does not want you at Slope Day! That's why they want to make it difficult - to discourage you from coming.  Given how liability works in this country it is absolutely the right decision to make.  And don't kid yourself - there is no way no the administration is going to change this policy based on the threat that some recent alums might not give money (I'd venture that RatushnyFan is the exception - most alums heading up for Slope Day are probably only a few years from graduation).

EDIT: Apologies if the first line sounds overly harsh.

[Robin L.]

Well, not sure they would allow anyone (even of age) to bring in alcohol as they now _sell_ it apparently on the slope.  So the oldies wouldn't be supplying much alcohol.....unless they kept buying it for those underage I guess...

[gobigred24]

No worries on offending me, I have thick skin  But I agree with you- most alumni going back (myself included) are recently removed from graduation.  And all this does is leave people with a bad taste in their mouths.  I understand the concern over liability, what i dislike is that the administration tries to hide behind other reasons, when CYA was the rationale behind most of the Slope Day changes in the first place.  And all most of the other changes did was force drinking behind closed doors- now the freshmen do a bunch of shots in their dorm rooms before going out to the slope, and end up just as sick, because they drink a lot, quickly.  

What I find amazing about this is that so many colleges have some sort of spring festival (I am now at Penn, in the midst of Spring Fling) and don't seem to have these sorts of problems, while Cornell does.  It like the Lynah ticket situation- why not look at what schools in similar situations- popular sport, small arena, academic emphasis, like Duke for squeakball- do about tickets and try to use that?  Cornell's problems are not unique, yet we seem to have a much harder time solving them

[RatushnyFan]

Hey - I'm young in spirit, if 35 in reality.  You're never too old to visit beautiful Ithaca and if you have the chance to get liquored up on the slope, why not?  Besides, Pep misses us ......... mysteriously a big chunk of his cash flow disappeared circa June 1992.  I too care about liability so of course I won't be facilitating underage drinking.

[RatushnyFan]

For those who missed it Snoop Dogg was great ........ my ears were ringing for a day or two afterwards.  And Ithaca is still fantastic.  Talked to Pep at length and he ran through what happened with Lee and that the two buyers of his stake had left town and were shirking on their barkeeping responsibilities.  Much has changed, but much will also never change.

[Greenberg \'97]

[Q]RatushnyFan Wrote:

 For those who missed it Snoop Dogg was great ........ my ears were ringing for a day or two afterwards.  And Ithaca is still fantastic.  Talked to Pep at length and he ran through what happened with Lee and that the two buyers of his stake had left town and were shirking on their barkeeping responsibilities.  Much has changed, but much will also never change.[/q]

Had the same conversation with Pep when I was there last month.  I said that it seems they turned out to be absentee landlords, and he said, "More like absentee assholes."

Then I carried him in darts for 7 games.

Yes, much will never change.