Who Do You Want for Slope Day: A Cornell Basement Interactive Poll

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March 29, 2012 at 12:19 am

Her performance at Ultra Music Festival 2012 with Avicii was so captivating and her Super Bowl performance was so well choreographed how could Cornell resist this opportunity....

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Carly Rae Jepsen

Canadian Idol winner Carly Rae Jepsen has one song that features every America teeny bopper artist. If she came for Slope Day she would sing "Call Me Maybe" on repeat for 2 hrs....maybe. We gave her our number and we know it's crazy....
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Lou Bega

For the seniors their last Slope Day wouldn't be complete without a little bit of Mary all night long
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Madonna

Her performance at Ultra Music Festival 2012 with Avicii was so captivating and her Super Bowl performance was so well choreographed how could Cornell resist this opportunity....

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