Even Cornell Sun Reaching For News About Cornell These Days
Because symbolic Ivy kidnappings are our thing, we thought we'd pass along this breaking news from yesterday's Cornell Sun:
Last night at around 12:30 a.m., a small group of people returned Cornellia, the Dairy Store's fiberglass cow, to the pitcher's mound at Hoy Field. The group drove a black pickup truck and covered the cow in blue tarp. Largely undamaged, Cornellia wore a wreathe of fake red roses around its neck and a Cornell baseball shirt, while a Rawlings baseball lay at its feet. The cow had been missing since late August and is valued at around $1,500. Cornellia was also stolen -- and returned -- in 2003.
But the fate of Cornellia's calf, also missing, remains a mystery.
One person involved with the incident vowed that the calf would return -- but not until spring.
All you Cornellespondents out there -- anyone know/care what the hell is going on here? And author Olivia, why grant anonymity to the "person involved in the incident?" You know Skorton isn't above slapping you with a subpoena.
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December 1st, 2006 at 11:47 am
Don’t really care- some ag school thing. The dairy bar people are all really proud of the cow though.
Looks like the resodding of the baseball field is done though, which I guess is a plus.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Hey, they finished redoing the grass at Hoy Field and it looks good. Maybe the union workers finally did something correctly for once and in a semi-timely fashion.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:29 pm
I found it hilarious that this was the front page story on the same day the Sun released their annual “Top 25 Most Influential Cornellians” article
December 1st, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Rawlings baseball … anyone see the connection? hunter rawlings perhaps bitter about the new president being beloved?!?
December 1st, 2006 at 8:16 pm
Cow theft is a serious issue around Boston-parts with J.P. Licks. Honestly.
December 1st, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Basically– the cow was stolen from the Dairy Bar/Dairy store a while back, and the perpetrators were never caught– and now the cow’s back.
Really. That’s it. Ithaca’s sure an exciting place!
December 4th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Why be so snarky about it ? If not for the sun — it’s the Cornell *Daily* Sun BTW – the prank and its resolution wouldn’t be more than a rumor.
It’s common daily newspaper practice to put a “talker” on the front page… you got a problem with that?
Cornellian – what you got against unions? obviously something.
December 4th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
Well gee shucks, I guess you’re right. I guess there is no reason for IvyGate to get all snarky about a real “talker” like this. I mean, never having lived in a bumfuck, cultureless, depressingly rural shithole myself, I’ve just always assumed that quaint little stories about boring, hick-prank minutiae doesn’t have a place in the newspaper. But since it’s in the service of substantiating a rumor–and really, that’s what papers are for, right?–I guess it’s kosher.
December 5th, 2006 at 11:55 pm
It’s clear that Christopher knows oh so much about Cornell and Ithaca and is not an impolite ignoramus at all. Lets hope he stays that way, so he never steps foot anywhere near Cornell to realize how amazing the place actually is.