Nate asked:
 
> Rumor has it a fraternity at
> Cornell has the chicken honor every year.  Can any of you fellow
> Cornellians verify this?
 
The fraternity at Cornell is Phi Sigma Kappa.  I forward some of the
List mail to a friend from school who was a brother in that house.
I will ask him if he knows the origins of their involvement.
 
Neil
 
PS: Sorry I didn't sign the original mail that I sent.
    (Erik, LUKE is my computer)