Today the editors and I had a little iChat (now wishing I had taken a screenshot!). Mostly, we discussed some website stuff, but we also talked about the future of Curia. Get ready for some really exciting stuff post-fall break.
In the meantime, we’ve consolidated categories, added a columnists widget, and had our best week of traffic ever. That’s right, there were 1,300 visits this week. Apparently you all really love reading about Bowdoin kids who smoke.
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UPDATE: As of approximately 11:55 a.m., power is restored. Whew.
Electricity is currently out for 80% of the campus, south of Sargent Gym and it is not known when it will return, according to the latest from Res Life and Security. Power is out in H-L also, which makes for a pretty dumpy Sunday as far as studying goes. Security does not know if power is also out in Hatch and Kanbar, but the northernmost report of an outage so far came from Sargent. Hatch was unreachable by telephone, so it’s unclear what the power status is there.
The outage is a result of a felled power pole along Route 123, bringing Central Maine Power to cut service to the area. So far, there is no official word from Security.
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A security officer found a transient woman living in a sleeping bag in the back lot of Ashby House. There were also indications that the woman may have gained access to Chase Barn by using a fire escape. The Brunswick Police were called to issue a trespass warning and escort the woman from the property.
Having had a class in Chase Barn, upon reading the second item in last week’s security report I immediately remembered the sign, handwritten in Sharpie, taped to the inside of the windows facing Ashby — it admonishes something along the lines of “leave the windows closed to keep out MICE and BATS!” I’m inclined to believe that if “vagabonds” were added to the list, people would take it a little more seriously.
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Peanut butter is one of those substances that no matter how hard it tries to be healthy, there is no doubting the fact that a tiny spoonful contains four hundred forty two grams of fat. It doesn’t matter if it’s Jif extra crunchy or Happy Golden Valley One Hundred Percent Organic – the fact remains that peanut butter is a sticky spread with a lot of fat.
But peanut butter remains one of those food products whose food status is significantly elevated by labels like “all natural” and “organic.” A plain old PB&J is boring, pita bread topped with all natural peanut butter is hip and trendy. Bowdoin students being the trendbots they are love all natural peanut butter. Read more »
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An evening with DJ IDM
Gea Ermotti and Isabelle Blankmeyer are our guests this evening. And George.
10:20pm: Pub Night was to begin at 10pm, it’s now 10:20 and we’re watching Biden v. Palin. Awesome.
10:34pm: Loud “pretend” techno. Techno-Wannabe. Empty pub. Sad writers. There are two DJs, two bartenders, and us.
(Isabelle) 10:46pm: A strobe light has started. Epilepsy optional.
(Gea) 10:49pm: This is lame.
10:55pm: First four dancers. Oh Shit…
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