CornellWatch

Since I’m really into alliteration and forcing myself to do things on a weekly basis, I’m introducing ‘Malgam Mondays. This start-off-the-week-on-the-informed-foot feature will, with a few exceptions, be a regurgitation/reanimation of the stuff I’ve starting posting to the News Ticker, which shows up on CornellWatch itself on the top right side but not on the main Kitsch-Ka-Blogs page. This way I can wipe it clean each week. Here’s the best of the boring things that happened since I started the Ticker. Click on for even more boring stuff.

Least appreciated Cornell alum in hot water over technicality: Ann Coulter voted in Connecticut while living in New York. In other news, no one really cares. Except maybe the person who photoshopped the image at left. [Cornell Insider] P.S. We apologize to any Nazis offended by the image.

Milstein hits new roadblock: The plans for the construction of Architecture building Milstein Hall have already taken 10 years to push through. But no! It must not go forward, claim annoying profs like Vincent Mulcahy, who doth protest the lack of accessibility to differently-abled persons: “A handicap [sic] person who might want to study architecture here, it’s impossible.” [News 10 Now]

The nerve!: Either CornellWatch is too young, too unread, and/or too unfabulous, or we got SNUBBED by USNews.com in their “Best Alternative Media Outlet 2008″ contest. Whatever. IvyGate is in dead last, so we’re going to try to be schadenfreude-y about that. [USNews.com]

MetaEz predictz acceptance rate of 18.6%: The first time it’s ever dipped below 20%! But we still pale in comparison to Harvard’s 7.1% for the Class of 2012…

Location location location: Google Latitude inaugurates the beginning of an era where stalking isn’t just about obsessively reading your stalkee’s status updates on Facebook. CornellWatch inaugurates new style of posting news ticker tidbits…

The original Ticker posts:
Cornell Review blog undercovers the secret lives of frat boys. And DOES NOT APPROVE.
…Cornell has a “University Blog Service”? Curious.
…D-Skortz decides not to divest from either Israel or Gaza because, unlike Darfur, “the situation in and near Israel has been characterized by cyclic difficulties leading to violent acts by both sides.”
…Bad Headlines Continue to Plague the Sun
…Conservative rag Cornell Review enters the blogging fray, and blogrolls me! Adorbs.
…NY Daily News cares about our plight!
…Boston Globesman: “Visiting this city in winter seems crazy.”
…Big Red Hoopsmen Rack Up 15 Consecutive Home Wins
…CU’s First VP Ceases to Live
…Hockey Third in Entire Nation
…Architecture Program Ranked No. 1 by Designintelligence
…Endowment tumbles 27%
…Tracy Mitrano guest-blogs for Chron of Higher Ed

Tags: admins, ann coulter, architecture, Big Red, cornell, david skorton, endowment, frats, google, Harvard, IvyGate, malgam mondays, metaezra, milstein, tracy mitrano, usnews.com

This entry was posted on Monday, February 9th, 2009 at 2:29 pm by D. Evan Mulvihill and is filed under events, malgam mondays, news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.