The post below goes a long way toward explaining my antipathy to many Ivy League types. There is an old story about a traveller who asked a man along the road whether the town he was moving to was a good place to live. The man asked how he'd liked the place he'd previously been. The traveller said the people were friendly and the town was pleasant. The man replied he'd find it the same there. Another traveller happened by and asked the same question but his comment about where he'd been was a series of complaints. The man told him he'd better move on because the nearby town was also unpleasant. I see a holier than thou and condescending attitude about places where there are Ivy League schools be they big or small. I suggest we look for other reasons why college hockey interest does not exist (in a way that supports a program) in NY of Philly. Arthur Berman [log in to unmask] GO BU!!! (next year) GO CC!!! (this year) On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Greg Berge wrote: > > Huge, dangerous, hideous places I'd rather vote for Pat Buchanan (or even > Pat Robertson) than live in: > > 1. Columbia, New York > 2. Penn, Philadelphia > > Middle-sized, dying, dirty, depressing Greyhound hubs: > > 3. Yale, New Haven > 4. Brown, Providence > > Small Birkenstock outlet stores: > > 5. That place, Cambridge > 6. Princeton, Palo Alto East > > Is that a town, or a ketchup stain on the map? > > 7. The 1995-96 Ivy League Champion, Ithaca > 8. Dartmouth, Hangover > > > Maybe there is something to the argument that where there are other cultural > options hockey just does not do very well. I mean, I love Ithaca and all, > but it would take an awful lot of persuading to get me to actually > buy a house there*. > > > Greg Berge > Let's Go Red! > * This is all just a shameless ploy to convince their law school to give me > a scholarship, so let's hope there's nothing to the Reverse Woofing > Theory... :-) > HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.