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Date: | Sun, 30 Oct 1994 21:45:42 -0500 |
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> > On yet another chilly evening in the Frank Southern Center (does the city
> > of Bloomington know about heaters???...I mean, it's artificial ice, so
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Is that correct ?? Plastic Ice ?? In Indiana ?? If Arizona, ASU and
Um...what I think I meant was that the ice is kept frozen by freezing
pipes underneath the ice...kinda like every other arena worth its
salt in the world. ie...it's not kept frozen by keeping the building
at 30 degrees.
> Ala-Huntington can play on the Real Thing way down south, I can't imagine
> why a *northern* arena would choose to use ersatz ice !?! Is it really
> less expensive and/or easier to maintain than ice ?? What do the players
> think of it ?? I can't say as I'm aware of any other facility (outside
> of a shopping mall :-) that uses the plastic stuff on a regular basis.
> I'm not knockin' the good people of IU, it just seems a little odd is all.
It's not IU...it's the city of Bloomington, and they're pretty cheap.
IU's too cheap to even have a rink on campus.
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