New York held a competition for establishing a campus on Roosevelt Island, and Stanford competed strongly, and was considered the shoo-in candidate, but they we

New York held a competition for establishing a campus on Roosevelt Island, and Stanford competed strongly, and was considered the shoo-in candidate, but they were sent home with their tail between their legs when the Cornell / Technion team won the bid. Nobody on the Stanford side nixed it; they lost and everyone in Silicon Valley was astonished.