Sacrifices for Sports

Well. Today is the last full day of my Thanksgiving break. Sad.

I will return on another 7 hour bus ride, which is always fun. It's quite alright though, because I will be returning to Boston in a little more than two weeks for my overly long winter break. There will be no song or vlog this weekend- sorry.

I don't have much to talk about now, so I will take a look at my Boston Globe here, and see what is on the front page.... "Northeastern calls an end to football."

This article is about how Northeastern is getting rid of football at the school because it lacks the money to "improve the team to meet the school's ambitions." You might wonder what the school's ambitions are exactly, that they'd cut such a huge college sport. Well, I would imagine that they are aiming for something above 3-8, which is where they stand now.

If all of the schools
With bad football teams cut them,
Picture the savings


Think about it. If every single college with a horrendous football team got rid of the team or cut funding for them, millions upon millions of dollars would saved every year. Students' tuitions would be less, dining hall food could be improved, people could get better education in general- all for the price of not going to a game that they know the results for in the first place. Besides, schools should focus on sports they're good at. For instance, at Cornell- everyone goes to the hockey games. Why? Because we're good at it. I don't think many people would notice if they got rid of our basketball team. Wait, no- we have a good b-ball team. Baseball, there we go- no one would care if we lost our baseball team.

A Fishy Tradition

Well. I just took my sociology exam (the reason for this late post), and I must say: I don't think I failed that badly this time around. And by failed I mean do worse than the median grade.

Now, on to more important topics, which I have yet to think of.

In the news for the weekend, the Maroon 5 show was a success. They showed up and gave a good performance, without being too out of it. They were actually surprisingly fit. They came to Ithaca, went golfing, went to play tennis, and did some of that sweaty yoga stuff (that you do in really hot rooms). I also got to wheel Adam Levine's wardrobe, if you know what I mean.

On Saturday, Cornell destroyed Harvard in a fantastic hockey game that I was not in attendance at. And now that hockey season is upon us, I think that's where I'll start.

To throw fish at a
Rink of Bostonians seems
Counterproductive.


Think about it. If the rink reeks with the smell of fish, all of those Harvard kids are probably used to it by now. Whereas the Cornell people won't be. In theory this might affect performance, except that it doesn't really matter, since Cornell schools them anyways. And it's funny. What's possibly more funny is that there are threats up about people being kicked out who bring fish, and their tickets being revoked. Until the police do full cavity searches, fish will still be brought in, is all I have to say.

Also, here's an interesting article about the history of fish-throwing traditions here: http://onfrozenblog.com/2008/11/22/cornell-hockey-traditions-include-throwing-fish.html