"ST~ M" is a Real Thing

I definitely thought it was just some weird goof, the whole "ST~ M" which the college's facebook page has been using for the past months, and that literally has "1" like.

But NAW, apparently it's real. They even sell mugs with it.

This is a real product the Campus Store sells.

I can totally get the rationale behind this change. There are a ton of "St. Mary's" around the world, so it's important to rebrand as something different. But you cannot just create "ST~M" and not explain it. Where is the press release, or rationale behind the new branding? I'm just lost.

PANIC: Tapestries Removed From Campus Store

PANIC!! It would appear that the tapestries have been removed from the Campus Center Store.  These essential tapestries have been replaced with INSTRUMENTS.

I think we can all agree that while music is an essential part of the college life (via student bands [Three Man River Band, that ska band that played once and I wish would play more, Byzantine Top 40, Hydrofish, Slyfoxed] and that guy who shows up to parties with a guitar and kinda annoys everyone) tapestries are much more important.

Where would we be if everyone did not have a Bob Marley or Grateful Dead tapestry?  I know that my townhouse last year had both, along with approximately five other tapestries (not at all a joke).  How are we supposed to have the generic college experience if we are deprived of our stereotypical tapestries???

Granted, I may be jumping to conclusions, and they may have tapestries somewhere else in the Campus Store, but WHO KNOWS (via I am not good at investigative journalism when I live several miles away).

THIS IS A TAPESTRY TRAVESTY

Windows 7

I really don't get the Campus Store. I'm talking about their selling Windows 7 for 117$. It's like, do they not realize that anyone with a .edu email address (which is probably 98% of the people reading this) can get it for only 30 bucks.

It's either stupid, or exploitative.