Harry Potter and the Severed Pig’s Head at Cornell
Yesterday, the Cornell Sun published a photo of a severed pig’s head on the Arts Quad, displayed in all its rotten glory along with a sign proclaiming, “Maybe it’s the beast, maybe it’s just us.”
According to Dear Uncle Ezra, a campus-related advice blog and Cornell’s own stand-in Carrie Bradshaw, the slaughtered head may have been a fraternity’s collegiate reference to Slope Day, Cornell’s drunken end-of-the-year party. It might also be a literary reference to Lord of the Flies. (Too stupid to create their own reputation so they had to steal Dartmouth’s and Brown’s? We thought as much.) Uncle Ezra went on to elaborate on the accused frat members:
Perhaps, deep inside, they truly crave the common sense authority that members of a mainstream society have and yet they have been denied by this godless institution where apparently “adult” students behave within a supposed institution of higher-learning as if it was merely high school with no rules…. I would hope that, in the future … other students at Cornell would see past some silly fraternity idiocy and be more disgusted by the deplorable self-poisoning and immorality occurring around the fraternity’s fitting choice of symbolism…
Come on, Uncle Ezra, cut them some slack. How else are Cornellians going to allude to Hogsmeade in order to hang onto the one piece of good publicity in a decade?
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September 10th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Wow Zhang, what a great misinformed post
1- The Dear Uncle Ezra post you refer to is over 9 years old. and it is about a pig head on a stake ON slope day. It was a fraternity tradition to bring it after their pig roast.
2- The head was just put up and is wearing a flu mask. It’s obviously a reference to the swine flu outbreak on campus, and maybe a protest to how it’s being handled.
3- that quoted post was not “elaborated” on by “Uncle Ezra” that was the original post by the student in 2000 that was complaining about the 2000 pig head display. “Uncle Ezra” would then respond to it…
September 10th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Hey “Quidditch”, seriously how fucing dumb are you. So quick to try and bash another school that you completley forget to check the facts. You will most def. get a job as a journalist. Next time do some fucking research. Dumbasss. Go Big Red
September 10th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
OK Qichen, we get it. You go to Harvard. Yes, THAT Harvard. Stop being a dick now.
September 10th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Seriously, this post is bunk. Don’t quit your day job — which is what, these days, at Harvard? Begging for the attention of your TA? You’d be better off looking for that missing $11,000,000,000.
September 10th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
That being said, where’s the rest of the reason Alex Howe gets name dropped like hell? The link to the D article was dead
September 10th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Incredibly misinformed post. Even worth deleting to save some face IvyGate. Who are your writers now?
September 10th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Grammar check next time, Zhang. Might be useful before going out of your way to criticize something more creative than this shit you call reporting.
September 12th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Rubin: You are embarrassing.
But this post is also an embarrassment to IvyGate. You seriously should delete or revise it.
At least the article titled “Cornell Junior Dies of Swine Flu, Administration Blames Beer Pong” didn’t last long, probably because it was distasteful and delusive. You forgot to remove it from the RSS feed though.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
hey cayuga…your gay
September 14th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Any one who has paid attention to the recent news from cornell that like ed this this is refering to the recent outbreak of swine flu on campus, which now has left over 500 sick and caused one death. THis pig and sign was put up some time on the wednesday (sept 9th) night. It is no coincidence that earlier at 7pm the frats had just voted to close all social events for a week because of the swine flu epidemic. The sign and quote is meant as a protest to the schools and student bodies “overreaction” to the outbreak