Billy Lustgarten said: > I noticed that the Cornell Big Red Bear (ya know, the dude > in the big hairy bear suit) was at neither the Colgate nor the UMass >game. >some suittype people were quite upset at the Big Red Bear >after the tiger incident (the Bear took a big tiger doll and played around >with it. The Bear then threw the doll into the student section where it was >promptly torn to shreds and its remains dumped onto the ice). The bear was not held responsible for that incident (all [pronoun] did was handle the doll; it was the section B fans who shredded it), and as far as I've been able to tell, nobody was officially reprimanded for it. The bear was simply unavailable to skate this past week. (Truth-obscuring gender neutral pronoun) will return for Cornell's next home games, on Feb. 9 and 10. Jeffrey Anbinder Cornell University Development HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.