January 6th, 2009
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Business School Goes Skiing
By: Ryan Ehrlich I recently returned from a ski trip to the great Rocky Mountains with a bunch of my fellow business school students. The trip consisted of number crunching, regression analysis, a conference on the state of the financial markets, and, of course, 80’s day. While I’m sure you’re all itching to hear about the first 3 topics listed above, I’m instead going to tell you about how business school does 80’s day.
 I knew the celebration of the best decade America has ever seen was going to be good when my alarm clock went off at 8:00 am and instantly started blaring Footloose by none other than Kenny Loggins. This was only appropriate since Loggins basically composed and performed the soundtrack for every great 80’s movie. As if you needed evidence of this fact:Footloose – Footloose (rumor has it Kevin Bacon is coming back for more - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087277/news#ni0630476 )
I’m Alright – Caddyshack (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080487/)
Meet Me Halfway – Over The Top (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093692/)
Danger Zone and Playing with the Boys – Top Gun (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/ )
This is It – No movies I know of, but Loggins and Michael McDonald teamed up in ’79 to basically start the 80’s music era with this jam
With Loggins rocking in my head (Tonight I gotta cut loose, foot loose, kick off your Sunday shoes, please Louise…) I perused the itinerary for the day ahead:
8:00am-3:30pm – Rock the slopes in your best 80’s gear
3:30pm-5:30pm – Après ski (translated into English it means: consume alcohol) in 80’s gear
9:00pm-2:00am – 80’s party with two 80’s cover bands including these guys http://www.fasttimesband.com/home.htm
 I donned my emerald green one piece ski suit (stolen from my pops, who advised “one pieces are really warm, in fact you should probably get one for yourself…”) and hit the slopes. I thought my one piece would take the cake for best 80’s costume, but I should have known better, I wasn’t the only one who grew up in the 80’s. One piece ski suits littered the mountain, puffy jackets with strange florescent shapes were plentiful, and at least one guy was brave enough to rock aviators down the slopes in 5 degree temperatures. After a few après ski cocktails, I realized the only logical way to fill the three and a half hour void between the après ski and the 80’s party was to watch the two best 80’s ski movies of all time - Hot Dog and Aspen Extreme back-to-back. Now, I know the Aspen Extreme enthusiasts (roughly 94% of Manly Cards readers) out there are saying, “but Ryan, Aspen Extreme was released in 1993.” While I understand your logic, if you look at the bright florescent yellow one piece TJ Burke is sporting on the movie cover, I think you’ll agree that this movie was clearly filmed in the 80’s. It just takes 3 years to edit such a masterpiece. Finally the hour was upon to roll into the 80’s party. Our crew brought a strong line-up of outfits which included plaid pants, side pony tails, spandex pants, neon colors galore, leg warmers, and v-neck t-shirts, but we quickly realized that our fellow b-schoolers made us look tame. One guy had a full Ghost Busters uniform complete with proton pack gun, another flaunted a Hypercolor shirt, and there was a plethora of gentleman wearing short shorts, crop tops, and head bands (all neon of course).
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