Enjoy (If You Bleed Green)

A new Dartmouth video titled The Miracle in Cambridge features comments from quarterback Derek Kyler, who threw the pass, and receiver Masaki Aerts, who caught it:

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Dartmouth football celebrates its graduated seniors with a quick page flip:

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Princeton has announced its recruiting class (HERE), leaving Cornell as the last Ivy League school to reveal the names of its incoming freshmen. Find a link to the rest of the Ivy recruiting classes HERE.

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While Cornell is the last to announce its incoming class it's among the first to take the election day pledge. From a release out of Ithaca (LINK):

The Cornell University Department of Athletics and Physical Education has announced that it will cancel all mandatory athletics activities on Election Day – Tuesday, Nov. 3 – in an effort to encourage student-athletes, coaches and staff members to exercise their constitutional right to vote.

Green Alert Take: It's a little surprising, given the Ivy League's push to be a leader in college athletics, that it hasn't instituted a conference-wide, election-day pledge.

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And hardly a surprise: The weathervane over Dartmouth's Baker Tower is coming down. (LINK)

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EXTRA POINT
After reading a blurb about a robot vacuum cleaner that was on a one-day sale at a ridiculously low price – and digging up several independent reviews saying this model, which can fit under most couches, is particularly effective at sucking up dog fur – we took the plunge. The price was so low that we didn't have much to lose.

Was it worth it? Like they write books about.

Golden retrievers are sweet, gentle and smart dogs that always aim to please, but they shed. A lot. No matter how much you brush them. It seemed just about every day I would grab a powerful handheld vac and chase down tumbleweeds of golden fur that an open door or window would blow out from under a couch and across our hardwood floors. But no more.

That's because at 2 a.m. each day the robo vac saddles up and goes to work. There was a small learning curve – ours, not the vac's – as we rearranged power cords that it became tangled in the first couple of days. Ever since, it has been going about its business scooting unseen around the house in the wee hours and returning to its home to rest before heading off on its rounds again the next morning.

Each day I empty the cartridge where it collects not just fur but previously unseen dust and detritus and marvel that something that seemed almost silly when the first models were announced can be so useful – whether you have a golden retriever or not!