State politics are funny. I still remember ‘old’ South being knocked down around 1994 and it was left as a pile of bricks for over a year through the beginning of the 1995/6 academic year. Then, it was announced that President Clinton (whose brilliant idea was it to let him near several thousand college girls?), Nelson Mandela, etc. would attend the dedication of the Dodd Center in October of 1995. The brick piles were gone in 2 weeks, max.
Shortly after, I fondly remember playing the game of ‘Top 10 places to send Secret Service agents too’ during the week leading-up to Clinton’s visit. Right before the weekend, the Marines started to use the baseball field to land Blackhawks on and I ran into a Secret Service sniper in the elevator going to the top of Hilltop. After that, I decided to spend the weekend getting drunk with friends in Ithaca.