The folks at Cornell Insider are excited.  They even went ALL CAPS and BOLD with an ! point:

BREAKING! The Cornell College Republicans and College Democrats announced today that they will co-sponsor a debate this October between national political figures Rick Santorum and Howard Dean. The duo will take to the stage of Bailey Hall on the night of Thursday, October 18 in a debate titled “The Role of Government in a Free Society.”

Santorum, fresh off his unsuccessful campaign to capture the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has spent the last few months out of the limelight until recently being named as a speaker at the upcoming Republican National Convention.

Dean, as you may recall, had his own run at the Presidency in 2004, when he also failed to defeat a more moderate, Massachusetts-based member of his party for the opportunity to take on the Incumbent in November. Dean would go on to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009.

“Both figures are very extreme, and we expect that there will be support and opposition for both,” commented Cornell Republicans President Jessica Reif, ‘14. “With the Presidential election coming up in November, we expect politics to be a big topic of conversation on-campus and hope that both speakers will contribute to the discussion.”

The debate, sponsored by the Young American Foundation, is free of charge. Tickets will be made available to the public in a few weeks.