WTF? Oh, it’s art! Land art, to be precise. I asked a guy who was unloading the bagfuls of hay stuff into big heaps, and he said that it was:

An architecture project commemorating the 40th anniversary of the exhibit that like STARTED it all, it being “land art.” And where was that exhibit hosted? Right here at Cornell. So some visiting professors in the Architecture program put this shit together. It’s actually mad precise, they use rulers and shit:

CONTEST: Guess the number of bags of hay they used — no counting the rows and columns, though, y’all. Send your guesstermation to watch@kitschmag.com and you’ll get a blog post featuring YOU or a PERSON OF YOUR CHOICE. Fo’ real real, not fo’ play play.

There was other cool stuff on the Arts Quad, too. Something less avant-garde and more, um, avant-guard?

Who are they? Ring of Steel! (Risley.) Here’s what the president sent me in an email:

Hi Evan!

Ring of Steel meets Mondays and Thursdays at 8pm in Risley’s Great Hall. For the next few weeks we’ll be using Saturday practices as “fights only” because we have a few performances coming up.

There’s no previous experience necessary; we’d love to have you join us! The doors to Risley are card access, but we’ll have a Ringer standing by the door at the beginning of practices to let people in. You can add yourself to the list-serv if you like.. Send an email to rosi-l-request@cornell.edu. The body of the email should just said the word ‘join’ (without the quotes). Hope to see you around!

You’re welcome to contact me for more information. Here’s a link to the original chapter of Ring of Steel in Ann Arbor, Michigan. http://ringofsteel.org/

Jen Wholey
President
Ring of Steel: Ithaca

1) Facebook all the candidates and compile an Excel spreadsheet of how many mutual friends (mutches! myootches?) you’ve got in common. Add up the Pres and VP totals, using an Excel formula if you’re extra wily. Make some notes about the 6 friends whose profile pic thumbnails the Facebook God has randomly chosen, why not?

2) Compare the total mutual friends of each Slate and begin to create an arbitrary ranking system. You can even install an optional weighting system with Excel formulas — multiplying by 1.5 if you really liked all 6 of those random thumbnail people, or maybe by 0.1 if the candidates’ FB pic kind of sucked.

3) Decide which Pres and VP candidate to vote for based on who has the highest Excel-calculated number.

Here’s my (unweighted) results, with some commentary and followed by the Top 10 Emptiest Campaign Promises:

1) “Winners”: Chris Basil and Nikki Junewicz (Team “You don’t know us? Do you even go here?”)

2) Runners-Up: Rammy Salem and Ola Williams (Team “Yes we can, Superman”)

3) Bronze: Scott Purdy and Emlyn Diakow (Team “ALL CAPS”)

4) Fail: Tony Miller and Emily Cusick (Team “We wrote our campaign pitch in the third person”)

5) Epic Fail Part Un: Andrew Brokman and Andy Gindy (Team “We recorded a fireside video chat in earnest”)

5) Epic Fail Part Deux: Jeff Rehberger and Ruslan Gudnyy (Team “One of us didn’t even show up to the WVBR debate”)

7) UNSUBSCRIBE: Murtza Manzur and Jon Dobrin (Team “Our 2-ply toilet paper crusade is not a mockery of Cornell’s election system”)

Just FYI: As of 9:19am today, I had 1,117 total friends on Facebook — which is above average in general but pretty subpar if I want to call myself a budding socialgay. Out of that thousand+, 538 (about 48%) are from the Cornell network. Also FYI: I’m going to vote for the toilet paper guys, just because their Youtube video was hilarious and because I like to “subvert” ranking systems — even my own.

TOP 10 EMPTIEST CAMPAIGN PROMISES

10) “If there’s enough money left over, we may just put it toward an underground tunnel system (but don’t hold us to that one).”

9) “A vote for Tony Miller and Emily Cusick is a vote for the best candidates.”

8) “Address student life issues such as the Ithaca Noise Ordinance and develop a Leasing Policy for students in Collegetown.” (Sadly.)

7) “ensuring a free SPORTS PASS for all undergraduate students”

6) “Integrating Cornell with the Ithaca community”

5) “Free Bus Pass to All Cornell Students”

4) “creating a CAMPUS PUB for interaction beyond the classroom”

3) “I have a voice.”

2) “If elected, I promise to make the club funding process easier and more comprehensive [sic: comprehensible] so that any freshman can understand it. Vote Brokman and Gindy. We’ll get you your funding.”

1) BB2P