In the Library without a shirt

Sitting in the library study room with friends not wearing a shirt because it is ungodly hot in here. A girl just walked by and definitely started slowing down. Is this legal?

EDIT: One of these people was Allison Teta!

Monks Gang War

Via the Point News

"According to a source in the grounds crew who lives near Monks, local police have been telling residents to avoid that area because of the possibility of a drive-by shooting in the area tonight."

Class Registration

Think I'm going to take

ESL across the curriculum

Gender in History

Astrology

Roman Empire

Thoughts? Anyone else taking any of these?

Take Back the Night

Today (thursday!) is the annual Take Back the Night event, which has been going on throughout the world since the late 1800s. The idea of the event is to protest violence against women, especially during the night. If you want to attend, show up at the River Center at 8. I think they will have some people talk, and maybe walk around in the dark some. Don't really know but it should be pretty cool. Maybe kinda emotional as well.

I guess being a guy at St. Mary's I don't really worry about walking around during the night, but I think this is a really great event and really important and cool. Maybe they will even have food.

Giant Spider PANIC

I was walking by the path and I saw a very large spider web. This can me only one thing: GIANT SPIDERS! PANIC! Spiders are really scary and I hate them and I am worried that this possible GIANT SPIDER will attack us all in our sleep/crawl into our mouths (boy scout urban legend that horrified me).

What do yall think made this giant spider web?

• Normal spider
• GIANT SPIDER
• Spiderman
• Spaderman
• Art Major
• Senior fulfilling art req

I think it was a spaderman

EDIT: According to comments Becca Clement made it, who is a senior. Called it!

SGA Meeting 3/30/2010

8:05 - Still looking for a place to have the meeting.

8:07 - Stole Lisa Neu's gavel.

8:13 - Gave gavel back to an angry Lisa Neu.

8:21 - GSMRF - Green St. Mary's Revolving Fund.

8:22 - Justin said climax and I laughed.

8:23 - The goal is to fight our energy consumption and decrease our carbon footprint.

8:24 - Only a few other school do this, most aren't small liberal arts colleges (Harvard has a huge one!). The idea is to invest in green energy, and then we would get money back from the energy savings. Also it makes the school look cooler!

8:30 - Brendan Larrabee just left. Ass.

8:31 - Perry wants to start the fund with 80,000$. Ahh this is so complicated! How wonderful! To keep the fund growing, 10% of SIG (Student investment group) dividends will go into it (prob like 1,000$ a year I figure), allocate 10,000$ of yearly operating budget on this, increase student fees by 5$. Radical.

8:36 - Green ideas! Green trash compactor (sends a message letting people know when it needs to be emptied), motion-sensing lights, solar street lights, rain barrels, reusable to-go boxes, etc.

8:38 - Fund should be self-sufficient within 6 to 7 years. Ahh I'll be so old!

8:48 - Chris Rodkey: blah blah blah I have a question? Justin Perry: Well if you read the email I sent out...

8:50 - Just voted on something. There's like five different parts of legislation for the GSMRF but I'm only kinda paying attention because I'd rather just vote on it all at once.

8:51 - Feel free to leave comments asking questions, this whole thing is complicated but really important/cool.

9:09 - "This isn't crazy magic coming out of nowhere, it's been proven to work" - Mark Snyder on how much we should raise student fees by (I want 10).

9:18 - Debating stuff. Should probably pregame SGA in the future.

9:19 - Totally knew Tony Quick was going to say 'pussyfoot'.

9:27 - *cries* I have to make a decision and vote and not abstain - Chris Rodkey

9:31 - More voting

9:32 - Alex Walls is proposing a new committee called the 'Environmental Protection Committee'. Cool. Committee would talk about environmental stuff or whatever, kinda boring but cool because environmental issues are really important and not covered by any of the other committees.

9:35 - Woah there was a typo in this amendment, can we really trust something with typos?

9:41 - Alex Walls just lost his 'train' of thought. Can we really trust his proposal? Considering abstaining to annoy him.

9:44 - Someone just piggybacked something. I fucking love piggybacking.

9:45 - Alex just had a 'trainwreck' in his mind. What is with his train obsession?

9:46 - Why don't you guys understand that there is no limit to how many people are on a committee, I have like a dozen people on food services committee. It makes meetings a lot more fun.

9:52 - Dean Bayless just said piggybacking.

9:54 - I literally have no idea what we are debating right now.

9:56 - Lost quorum, gonna table stuff. Oh and the Environmental committee passed.

9:59 - Movie this weekend in Youth in Revolt. Hope Cera can nail the role of awkward teenager.

10:00 - Dean Bayless implying we have weak girly arms. I don't disagree with her.

10:01 - Candidates for next years exec board. Marlena and myself for prez and vice, Matt smith for treasurer, Bryan miller for campus programming. Other people are running against us but these are the cool dudes yall should vote for.

10:03 - Just invited 600 people to the natty boh hunt event. Lols.

10:04 - Spirit Week. Some cool ideas. Penny wars is dumb because by college you realize a small amount of change can easily buy a 40oz.

10:08 - Meeting over!

CJ the Mascot

CJ, the SMCM mascot! Found this on the college's archive of photos. There's a lot of cool stuff there. Forgot the website though. Fun way to procrastinate. I don't really like how blue the costume is, but the head is kinda funny. I think the new one is a lot less aggressive which I like. I wonder if CJ is the name of the mascot or the kid there? Feel like Solomon is a pretty good name, but it has a pretty religious connotation which has pros and cons I guess. People think we're a Catholic school a lot, and Solomon just perpetuates that idea. But on the other hand, it's kinda like Solomon's island which is nearby.

Also um I think the photo was from like 1993? Maybe 87? Can't remember.

Twitter

The SMCM LOL BLOG has a twitter for some reason. It's http://twitter.com/SMCMLOL.

I try to update it as I post new entries, but I forget often enough that it's not 100% accurate.

Bald Eagle on Campus

Been seeing a 'bald' eagle on campus lately. Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand bald eagles like to fight seagulls (long term readers may know how much I fucking hate seagulls with every fibre of my being) and they are pretty and they are an American icon. But on the other hand there are really no negatives to this so I don't know why I wrote it like there would be a negative. Not gonna erase it. Fuck editing.

Saw it Friday morning around 7:30 on the way to class circling LQ. As an LQ senator, if this bald eagle tries to attack us I will destroy it and its terrorism. Some SMUT friends said they saw it on North Fields, and another friend said she saw it attacking a seagull (woot).

What do yall think about 'bald' eagles

• Do they represent the very ethos of St. Mary's?
• What is an ethos?
• Do bald eagles get drunk?
• Would you rather our national bird be the bald eagle or the delicious turkey via Ben Franklin
• Was Ben Franklin our greatest President due to his alcoholism and not actually being a President but getting to be on the 100$ bill?

EDIT: surprised I didn't write this as a 'PANIC' article.

Spring Formal

Spring Formal. I walked by and they were playing Time Warp from Rocky Horror Picture Show which was cool. I walked through later and grabbed some sandwich and that was amazing.