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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]

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One of CornellWatch’s spies gave me the following bit of information (which was edited for privacy) on the rapidly approaching Dragon Day (yeah, it has its own Wikipedia page!):

So here’s everything I know: according to [AAP source], this year the first-years who traditionally build the dragon have been working on what [source] calls ‘animatronics,’ or mechanized creations that mimic the movements of animals. Some projects mentioned: a praying mantis arm, an elephant’s trunk that could actually pick a stick up off the ground, and an octopus that crawled out of a box, looked around, and slunk back in. These aren’t robots–they’re basically really intricate puppets. So [he] was hinting that this year’s dragon should be able to move more and be more puppet-like than any of the previous dragons.

Our source even cooked up some ridiculous speculations about what the dragon might do:

Some ridiculous speculations about what the dragon might do: fly away on leathery wings? break free of the architects and start humping Ezra Cornell’s leg? crawl up the side of Uris and disappear into the ventilation system?

Publicity for Dragon Day came today in the form of bare-chested architects slathered in green paint, wearing exercise clothes. As they ran around campus looking very, very cold, they yelled at to anyone with a grin, “DRAGON DAY!”