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One Cornell junior, in a great feat of maximum conspicuousness, has been garnering a lot of attention these days by walking around Ho Plaza and Olin and Uris Libraries in a bright yellow body suit, cheerfully addressing passerby with an unbeatably sexy British accent. Today, Kitsch was able to catch him right outside Olin Library and learn more about this mysterious Cornell persona.

Gold Boy, as this otherwise nameless 21 year old Cornell junior refers to himself, has been on a quest to bring some more cheer to the Cornell student body. To achieve this, he’s been donning his bright yellow body suit on most Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays for the last few weeks and greeting students at some of the most high traffic places on campus.

He thought of the idea when he realized that student morale could use a boost during this time of year. “It came to me on a rainy day sort-of-thing,” said Gold Boy, who chose the bright yellow color because of its association with sunshine and happiness. Read the rest of this entry »

The frantic studying taking place in the Arthur H. Dean Reading Room in Uris Library was interrupted just an hour ago by a slew of cameramen and Bob Saget, the actor who played Danny Tanner in the popular 90’s television show, Full House.

Bob Saget is currently filming a show on A&E called Bob Saget’s Strange Days, and has come to Cornell to feature the rather under-the-radar-fraternity, Seal and Serpent.

What brought Saget to Uris Library is unclear. He only spent about five or ten minutes in the Reading Room sitting at various desks and conversing with two unknown college-aged young men as cameramen filmed nearby. Only a handful of students (including myself) were studying in the room at the time, yet Saget’s presence certainly caused a stir. Many students awkwardly stood around watching the scene, and Saget was rushed with a small crowd as he exited the building.

Rumor has it that Saget will be on campus throughout the weekend.

Amidst the several Cornellians enjoying a fine Saturday afternoon and evening out on the Arts Quad were a number of solemn black-cloaked individuals standing at the edges of the quad. Every few minutes, they stepped toward the center, while the ones standing at the six o’clock and twelve o’clock positions raised their lanterns. Another individual, possibly some kind of group leader, contrasted the still and silent dark circle by hobbling around in a bright blue hooded cloak with a crude walking stick, coughing every so often. Another small circle of young men in suits stood in the exact center of the arts quad, looking downwards.

This strange sight was the Black Lantern Processional, a hundred-year-old tradition of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.

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Most of us at Cornell know Barton Hall as the campus gymnasium, or the building where our most awful final exams take place.  But unbeknownst to many current Cornellians, there exists a group of individuals out there for whom Barton Hall is more than a giant room with excessive echo.  It is the site of the most legendary performance of one of the most influential bands of the century: The Grateful Dead.  It is no wonder then, that Dead enthusiasts that follow the band around the country would flock to the Dead Head mecca of Barton Hall for the Furthur concert on February 14^th, 2010. Read the rest of this entry »