Joe reminds us that amidst the bustle of wedding parties, one must not forget to pick up their tix for the greatness that will be Cortaca.

Hey! What are you doing this weekend? Oh, you're not opening for St. Vincent?

Congratulations, you're inferior! (Don't worry, I am too.)

On the other hand, senior Rosie Newton is doing just fine considering she and her friends in The Red Lions are slated to open for St Vincent on the Ithaca stop of their nationwide tour. Nice.

With so much going on this weekend, there's no excuse to just sit around with the bros in the dorm next to yours and ingest strange party drinks. From homecoming to gorge hiking to concerts to... um, RA duties, these three IC students have got the weekend figured out!

We here at Rattle are always looking for an excuse to promote chaos and anarchy. So, what better way than by highlighting the annual Dillingham fountain plunge? 

Each year, members of the senior class -- sometimes with permission of school authorities, sometimes with the permission of, umm, themselves -- celebrate the end of their formative years with a plunge into the fountains.

This year, the water wasn't TOO frigid, and the sunshine was bountiful. Inflatable dolphins? Cannonballs into the fountain? Yeah ... sounds to us like Senior Week is in full swing.

True confessions time -- I hate horror movies. Frankly they bore me to tears. The only worthwhile elements for me are the infinite suggestions for how best to chop off my head and disembowel myself so that I don't have to endure another minute of what boosters of the genre amusingly refer to as "acting" and "plot." You want scary? Read a recent edition of the Financial Times and you'll know real fear.

There is, of course, one exception: I love Evil Dead II. And like most people who remember a more innocent time, when scary cinema was really just a comprehensive study of stage props made from whatever was handy on the condiment stand at the commissary, I love it because it is hands down the worst movie ever made. Which lends it a certain dignified charm.

Since a great many of our readers were not yet born when this treasure trove of celluloid crapola belched forth from the underground, it is with great pleasure that I bring you news of its revival in the only form potentially more dreadful/hilarious than the original: Evil Dead: The Musical, which surfaces all bloody and silly tonight and tomorrow at Dillingham Studio 2.

Here's the link, Facebooksters: http://is.gd/6BMe/evildead

You'll want to e-mail this groovy ghoulie to make a reservation for the 11 p.m. show tonight or the 1 a.m. show tomorrow (well, Sunday...you know what I mean).

Oh, and I love this bit: 

"We are using dyed water in this show, so please wear clothing you don't mind getting messed up. We are like 99% sure this won't stain your clothes...though your skin may turn a little pink. We'll have garbage bag ponchos for the front two rows...YAY."

Who are you to resist?

All around the country last night, Republicans, Democrats, and others gathered to watch the election returns pour in -- and Ithaca College was no exception.

However, most of those parties weren't featured on the home page of CNN.com like Ithaca's!

Chloe Scutt, a sophomore from nearby Dryden, New York, shot some video of the celebration that took place on campus last night. She uploaded it to CNN's "iReport" section; within hours, it was being seen by thousands of CNN.com readers. Chloe tells how it happened: 

"I was sitting in my dorm lounge with friends watching the election coverage and as soon as news broke Obama won, screaming from everywhere started! So my first instinct was to grab my little Casio Exilim camera that I have ... So I take it outside with me to find a huge mob forming around the terraces. Who ever brought out the bagpipes was a genius; everyone followed him down to the Quads, where more and more people joined in. We marched all the way to Textor and just celebrated with chants, singing, etc. ... There HAD to be at least close to 1000 students there all gathered around and watching. As for how long the celebrations lasted, I left around midnight, one AM. I still woke up to screams and celebration though all last night."

Is Chloe one of those diehard Obama supporters that the media loves to play up? Hardly: 

"If I can be completely honest, I did not vote for Obama. I voted for the underdog. Yes, I voted for McCain. No, I am not a registered Republican. I honestly fell right in the middle. I don't like Obama's ideas on Healthcare and welfare programs. I HATE McCain's views on how the economy should be handled, and I do not like Palin, but I love Biden. I was not convinced on either side."

"As for last night, I was so proud to be a student at Ithaca College, no matter who won. I participated with the chants last night. And I believe there were even McCain supporters there too. I'm ready for change, ready for a new era and I think most of the students here on campus are too!"

An integrated marketing communications major in the Park School, Chloe says she wants to work for CNN someday. Looks like she just got a jump start!

Update (5:15 p.m.): While she was in an advertising class today, Chloe got a call from a CNN reporter who interviewed her and other "iReporters" about last night's event. Not bad for someone who's never even uploaded a video to CNN before ...

Read the CNN Article

We hear a rumor that there's going to be a massive pillow fight at 5:30 p.m. today in the Fitness Center. And that they want 1,000 kids to show up! Truth? Fiction? Who knows? 

We put the Rattle Reseach Team on the case and discovered that the pillow fight world record was once set in nearby Albany when, in 2005, over 3,600 University of Albany students staged one. They even brought the Guinness people into the act.

The following year, a conference in Atlanta claimed to set the record with 10,000 participants:

But, world record or no, we're looking forward to seeing whether this rumor pans out.

If any of our dedicated readers happen to attend and take a photo, send it to cpollock@ithaca.edu and we'll consider publishing it here. We've seen our share of strange workouts at the Fitness Center, but nothing like a thousand kids smacking the stuffing out of each other.

Marianne is a sophomore and a DJ at WICB.

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