sun article

[jy3]

http://www.cornelldailysun.com/articles/6744/> ::nut::

[jtwcornell91]

The JA says:
[Q]
In the past tradition has included throwing fish on the ice, but no longer will this be allowed at any time.
[/Q]
Um, so the University used to allow people to throw fish?  ::uhoh::

[cmoberg]

You bet (or at least it was not strongly discouraged or policed).  In the late 70s (my student years) it was common practice to throw fish and tie a chicken to the Harvard Goal.

Chris

[Josh '99]

Mary Beth Grant wrote:

Last year, someone threw a fish at a Harvard player during the national anthem, and hit him in his face mask. As a result, no one may throw fish even before the game.

Oh, come on!  That was quite possibly the greatest throw of anything, ever!

[jtwcornell91]

I know all about the tradition (see http://www.amurgsval.org/squishy/fish.1.4.html ); the point is, by saying they won't allow it any more, the authorities are implying it was previously allowed.  As long as the Cornell has been worried about covering its arse, throwing fish has to have been officially forbidden, even if it was tolerated.

The last big push the University made at cracking down on the fish-throwing was for the 2000 quintafinal series vs Harvard.  (I suspect this was because Game Two was televised.)  People got scared and relatively few fish were thrown at the usual time (when Harvard first appears), although the plan backfired and a bunch of fish were thrown along with the newspapers during lineups, causing a longer delay because the clean-up crew had to stop its work during the anthems.  Things had returned to normal by the next time the Crimson came to Lynah.

[jnachod]

Hillarious.  I'd love to see them try to JA hundreds of students.  

I'm glad they mentioned this:

Sneaking into games. Seats are limited and not everyone will have tickets to see the action.  Perhaps they need to go a little more with this.  They also need to more vigilantly kick people out who decide that their section isn't good enough for them and sneak into lower-lettered sections than their ticket says.  People in section B are there because they worked hard to get those seats.  It's not fair when people with section F tickets that they bought outside the rink from a scalper sneak under the railing during the national anthems and scrunch everyone in section B into a tighter formation.

[Adam \'04]

Josh Herman wrote:

[q] Mary Beth Grant wrote:
Last year, someone threw a fish at a Harvard player during the national anthem, and hit him in his facemask. [/q]

He was wearing his helmet while the national anthem was playing!!! Asshole!!! He deserved to get smacked in the face with a dead smelly fish.

[Jacob \'03]

Adam '04 wrote:

He was wearing his helmet while the national anthem was playing!!! Asshole!!! He deserved to get smacked in the face with a dead smelly fish.

Are you using some odd form of hyperbole for effect, or seriously insinuating that it's the fans' job to regulate with violence (however silly) possible lack of respect shown by a student athlete?

[Robb03]

Mary Beth Grant wrote:
Last year, someone threw a fish at a Harvard player during the national anthem, and hit him in his facemask.


Good thing he was wearing the mask.  If not, we could have sparked an international incident.  Guess we should mandate masks for cooks now, as flying fish seem to pose a danger to all of us.

[Ben Doyle 03]

BTW. . .It was a great throw, not timed well, but a great throw nonetheless

[Josh '99]

Ben '03 wrote:

BTW. . .It was a great throw, not timed well, but a great throw nonetheless

Are you taking credit for said throw?

[Ben Doyle 03]

nope. . .no credit for this throw. . .mine was the first to hit the ice!!!:-D

BTW. . .that fish came from section D, I sit in B.

[DeltaOne81]

Having the ability to actually look at a hard copy of the Sun, I thought I should mention that this "article" is really just a letter to the editor which most people would probably never read, and which the fish stuff is about half of one point, out of four total points. If they put printouts on the seats in Lynah or if it makes the front of back page, then we'll worry about them really cracking down. Otherwise, it's probably just posturing, so that we all know the official party line (ya know, like telling us yearly that we can't say "sucks" ::rolleyes:: ).

-Fred

[Josh '99]

DeltaOne81 '03 wrote:

Having the ability to actually look at a hard copy of the Sun, I thought I should mention that this "article" is really just a letter to the editor which most people would probably never read, and which the fish stuff is about half of one point, out of four total points. If they put printouts on the seats in Lynah or if it makes the front of back page, then we'll worry about them really cracking down. Otherwise, it's probably just posturing, so that we all know the official party line (ya know, like telling us yearly that we can't say "sucks" ::rolleyes:: ).

The message that should ACTUALLY get out about the fish (which can't start to be emphasized enough) is that nobody should throw fish (or anything else) once the game has started.

[French Rage]

Just in spite I'm now gonna take as many fish in as I can fit on myself, and get everyone I know to do the same.