Hey! Who took my ugly stick?

[skreidle]

...seems they beat up the Cornell homepage with it. Beat it with the Unhelpful stick and Un-navigable sticks, too. Sorry state of affairs, if you ask me.

And hey, if you have any affiliation with Cornell, you can legitimately go here and complain!

Comments

[alacrity.livejournal.com]

Oh yuck. They used a sans-serif font for all the text. Yow.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Honestly, it used to be much nicer.. as did the CUinfo page, which formerly had a nice Cornell University banner at the top which cycled for the seasons, and now has the bland C U Info.

And you see that nice, simple, white-on-red "Cornell" logo? That was something like $100K in development. Isn't it exciting?

[shadowsong.livejournal.com]

that's weird, our chem building is named olin too.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Eeeenteresting.

(We also have an Olin Library.. and a Uris Hall, and Uris Library, McGraw Hall, McGraw Tower..)

[six2.livejournal.com]

I hope they didn't do that in-house.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Bet they did.

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[six2.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't shock me.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm just waiting for it to change back to resembling the old page (which I wish I could link to, it was much nicer.)

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[six2.livejournal.com]

I can't believe they spent all that money on that logo.

Likewise Allaire and Macromedia, my parent companies make stupid decisions like that - new branding for everything every few versions to the tune of thousands for nuthin.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's a tough one, too.. white text on red square.

The Campus Store is now the Cornell Store, too, and they have new signs and everything!

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[six2.livejournal.com]

More money than brains. Your money!

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

You betcha. All sorts of money (but never enough, see) from the state and sponsors and Requested Alumni Donations and whatnot, too..

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[six2.livejournal.com]

But probly no worse than most schools.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I don't know.. Cornell increases tuition by ~5%/year, when inflation's under 2% at this point.. any idea how that compares to other schools?

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[six2.livejournal.com]

Oh geez, I don't know either. But it seems like a good school, someplace I might go in another life.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Definitely a good school, in my opinion.. just a bit expensive.

hehe

[eitri.livejournal.com]

unhelpful stick, un-navigable stick...that rocks