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Is it just us, or is it kind of strange that Cornell sophomore Alex Cain's school-sponsored "Life On the Hill" blog (part of a university-wide effort to make student life seem friendlier), "Over the Top," contains a joke about the school's gorge-related suicide problem in the top banner?
In case you can't see it, Alex's rendition of Amy Winehouse reads "They tried to make me go to the gorges but I said no no no." And yes, "WE ARE THE CHAMPPPPIIIIIOOOONNNSSSS OOFFF THEEE IVY LEAGUE" is the top headline right now. Something about basketball.
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March 5th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
There’s no indication that this has anything to do with suicide. Just using the word “gorge” doesn’t make something suicide-related.
Oh, and on the topic of “something about basketball?” Isn’t something like Penn/Princeton not winning the Ivy League the kind of thing that Ivygate should be covering? It might not be about faculty scandals or sex bloggers, but it’s still an issue of interest to Ivy League students/alumni. Maybe you guys should hire a dedicated sports reporter or something, because your coverage in this area has been pretty dismal/nonexistant.
March 5th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
if we can’t laugh at suicide, what can we laugh at?
March 5th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
All those “Ithaca Is Gorges” shirts always did make me want to kill myself. You might be on to something here.
March 5th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
What I want to know is how Jenna Bromberg got a blog…AND a sex column? See “Bedroom Eyes” at cornellsun.com. This girl is annoying. And not that insightful.
March 5th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Dear Former– Jenna had the blog before she had the column, and when she got the column her identity as the mysterious “jenna b” was sorta unknown. As for the gorges, well, even if it was suicide related (fyi, the gorges suicide issue is something more related to people traveling TO ithaca, rather than from WITHIN, afaik) I don’t think it should have been censored… tasteless, maybe, but I am all for letting the blogs be independent.
March 5th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Slow news day? Lame, IvyGate.
March 5th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Still trying to figure out why IG hasn’t covered the Harvard bball scandal with Amaker apparently being allowed to run roughshod over the rules.
March 5th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
I have no idea. It’s a really important story — at least as important as the latest “maybe plagiarism, but not really” post.
Do they really care about sports that little? There are so many great Ivy sports stories that are being completely ignored. The individual school papers are picking them up, but you’d think that a blog devoted to the totality of the Ivy League would actually care also.
IG, get someone to cover sports. You’re really missing out on quite a lot.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:57 am
Please don’t, IvyGate. I’m willing to put up with your sub par, barely reported ’stories’ so long as I don’t have to slog through pages upon pages of inane sports recaps to boot. The Ivy League is to college sports what the WNBA is to the professional basketball, minus the superior fundamentals.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:34 am
it took me a second to figure out what the hell “IG” meant.
ivygate is not nearly a good enough blog to merit its own abbreviation. no more “IG.”
March 6th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Why all the hatred against “IG”? Can’t we all sit down and let some healing take place through positive expression of our feelings?
March 6th, 2008 at 11:04 am
@Penn ‘08
You don’t have to do recaps, but covering a story as big as the Harvard bball scandal seems well within the jurisdiction of this blog.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
You would think they’d cover the Harvard scandal…they seem to have a thing for covering cheaters lately. Plus, who doesn’t like to see Harvard take a spill every once in a while?
This is how ivygate should report on sports…if it’s big enough to make headline ESPN/SI/Yahoo Sports etc, then it should be on here.
March 6th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Covering some sports stories seems wise to me, especially considering our little group is really just a sports conference and nothing more.