Wednesday, February 4, 2009

"You Just Suck"

Since the new year, Athletics has been cracking down on profanity at hockey games. See my post from January for some background. There's been a lively discussion on eLynah, the Cornell hockey forum, about the profanity issue and the Athletic Department in general.

The most bizarre post comes this morning from JDeafv, who gives an explanation for the timing of the crackdown:
I was talking with one of the more friendly ushers on the student side of Lynah to understand why the return to an emphasis on the zero-tolerance policy for unruly behavior. They said the real reason for the crackdown against language, etc. was because of an incident at a game late last semester where a female student was giving oral sex to a male student in Section B.

Supposedly the two were observed by a security person on the far side of the rink (Section N), but by the time security mobilized to the scene they were "finished" and denied everything.

It was deemed unacceptable by the higher-ups in athletics that none of the ushers were paying enough attention to stop this from occurring. As a result, they decided to go back to a zero-tolerance policy that forces the ushers to much more tightly police the rink in general, but the students in particular.
I know I'm pretty focused on the ice during the hockey games, but I really doubt that this could have gone on in my section without anyone around the couple noticing. And for someone in Section N to have observed the act, there would have had to be no one standing in front of the couple. For these reasons I doubt the story is true, but if it can be confirmed, it should definitely go up on the Wikipedia page or something. Wow.

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