Raid!

Bunch of bros hanging out half naked in the hallway. Think there was a 'raid' going on. Guess in the past dorms raided other dorms. Dunno how this would work. Feel like today people only raid via world of warcraft (suitemate is probably doing this right now). Wish I got to raid rival dorms when I was a first year. Feel like Dorch should raid QA for panties (via revenge of the nerds).

Also look how diverse this group is, makes me happy.

Also drinking in the hallway, always a good time.

ADA Accessible

Dudes installing a wheel chair elevator outside Calvert.

To quote Principal Skinner (Simpsons) "This is a proud day. Now when people ask if we're in compliance the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1975, I can say, we are closer than ever before!"

Shine on you crazy diamond, St. Mary's, shine on.

Oh hello I am a bunch of bricks with people's names in the Physical Plant lot. For some reason I am not in the ground with other bricks.

Feel like this is almost legitimate journalism/muckraking. Why aren't these bricks on paths with other donation bricks?

Feel like if I bought one of these I would feel ripped off/used/lame/sad.

Hope one day they get to be made into a path for people to walk on. Hope I get to buy one and put "Hope u are on a walk of shame" and then someone gets to walk of shame on it.

UPDATE: Someone's last name is Cooch...Thanks to Brian Van Parys for the tip.

SMPs

Some SMPs that I kinda want to see based off the emails

• Monday: 11:20 - 11:40 Honora Fallo-Oben: “Interpretations of The Wire: Language
  Use in a Criminal Drug Subculture”
  Mentor: Helen Daugherty
• Kristen VanBlargan, “Transforming Silence: Feminist Revisions of Father-Daughter Incest in Fairy Tales” (Feingold)
  
• Katie McDermott, “REDACTED BY REQUEST” (Anderson)
  
• Justin Alexander Perry, “Re(a)d All Over, Still?—An Investigation Into the Lasting Political Power of American Newspapers in the Twenty First Century” (Click)
  
• Alex Swope, “What Are We Working For? The American Dream of Self-Making in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Literature” (Nelson)
  
• Applied biology in the modern brewing industry

And probably others, not all the emails are out yet, but these all look cool/relevant to my interests.

SGA Erections

SGA erections for Senators are going on right now until Friday. Go vote for people!

For the Townhouses I voted for

• Tom Seahawk
• Julie Franck
• Chicken Patties from the Great Room  <3>

I would recommend that everyone vote similarly

p.s. lol look at those typos I made tehehe

SGA Meeting 4/27/2010

Last SGA Meeting of the year

Gonna miss u Justin, Lisa, Matt, Sola, Alexandra, Louis, Debbie, Rodkey (but not really [j/k]) others etc.

Debbie Travers made us cream puff things and brownies. They are delicious. She has finally done something worthwhile (just kidding obv, Debbie has done a lot of cool stuff and will probably continue to do cool stuff as a real adult, and I'm sure her recital last Sunday went swimmingly)

8:08 - Meeting starting, this is early!

8:10 - WE JUST APPROVED THE MINUTES HELL YES!

8:11 - Chairman of the Board of Directors Muldoon is here. We are in the building that is named after him. How awesome.

8:12 - He has a cute face. He is bragging about stuff that we do, feeling used/important. He just described something as 'neat', feel like this is a good adjective.

8:14 - Kinda have to pee.

8:15 - Muldoon has a 'neat' voice, wish he was my grandfather.

8:16 - Kinda reminds me of Willie Nelson but less stoned.

8:19 - Ah this guy is great! He wants to make sure that our new on campus farm is preventing runoff (since apparently 65% of Chesapeake Bay pollution is runoff of fertilizer and other stuffs), and this is such a great idea! ahh <3 .="." div="div">

8:22 - Justin Perry has a Presidential Proclamation (his first), thanking Muldoon for chillin with the SGA for a bit.

8:23 - New Club, the SCUBA Club. SCUBA is an acronym I think, not sure really. Mike Studivan is here, I am his friend but I don't really hang out with him anymore.

8:28 - blah blah blah. I asked a question about snorkeling (<3>

8:33 - SCUBA club passed!

8:37 - Resubmitting the No All Capital Letter All Student Emails. People seem less grumpy and more likely to respond to this positively.

8:40 - Who the fuck just voted nay on this shit. Regardless is passed, fuck yes!

8:41 - Something boring but important that Justin Perry brought up just passed.

8:42 - Gonna go pee brb.

8:43 - Circle K asking for money for cool stuff to help kids who are gonna die. 800$ for hotel rooms over the summer in Florida. Circle K does a lot of really awesome stuff, like hundreds of hours of volunteering every semester. I can't say no to dying kids. Either way it passed!

8:48 - Bill about funding stuff for the farm. Justin Perry is presenting it, about 4,000$ from the St. Mary's Green Revolving Loan Fund to pay for student farmers, none of which are alumni or non-students (which was earlier an issue, so there has been a compromise).

8:50 - Alex Walls (<3>

8:53 - It passed! Go Campus Farm. They need to give it a catchy name, like Tom Seahawk Farm (I get egotistical when drinking).

8:54 - "Fuck the Parking Committee" - Justin Perry (quote may not be accurate). But yeah, voting to get rid of the Parking Committee. UNANIMOUS VOTE WOOO!.

8:56 - Officer Reports, exciting!

8:58 - No SafeRide this week, :[.

9:02 - Chris Rodkey just said "shrubbery". Middle School me is laughing about Monty Python right now.

9:03 - Oh my god Middle School was like a decade ago.

9:04 - "It's been real" - Anna Winship.

9:08 - Robb is saying something silly that will never happen. Or maybe it will which would be cool. A Deli at the Waterfront. "It should also have a bar" - at least half the SGA.

9:13 - Becky White has a 10$ dollar bill in her mouth, is she a stripper?

9:14 - Katie Caffey is awesome for holding my computer while I get sworn in!!!!

9:16 - Ken just got sworn in - booo-ya! He is holding the gavel! Whooooaaaa (-Katie C)

9:17 - Done!

Hey thanks to everyone who has read my SGA posts over the years, hope it has given you some insight to what SGA is about. Not gonna be able to do it next year, but I'm going to be looking for a protege/replace SGA blogger.

Graves!

I was wandering around the graveyard and noticed this grave, and that there was something strange about it, so I took a closer look.

How appropriate! Beer at a grave as an offering/tribute to the dead.

Yall, is this

• funny
• awesome
• sacrilegious
• stereotypical of a college
• would be better if it was keystone/40oz olde englishy
• stupid

I was thinking about taking it, since it was unopened, but I think the ghost of 'Purdy' would haunt me.

PANIC! COMMUNIST INVASION

Was riding my bike along Route 5 when I saw this obvious sign of a possible/imminent communist invasion. The sandbar in St. John's Pond had rocks arranged in the form of a hammer and sickle! PANIC!

My guess is that this is a signal to communist bomb planes to know where to drop bombs/propaganda pamphlets.

If this invasion is going to happen, then I for one welcome our new communist overlords (in the hopes that they do not eat/enslave me).

Heard that it's changed around a few times, saying USA and maybe other stuff, haven't seen it myself though.

Hope someone like St. Mary's Today sees this and writes about communist liberal arts college kids or some bullshit.

<3 u shitty journalism (feel like I can relate/am in the same boat)

TORNADO, PANIC!

Just saw a tornado warning as I was walking through the upper deck. PANIC. Stuff that tornados can destroy:

finals

cows

film industry

SMCM

fences

cars

Joanne Goldwater

Avoid tornadoes by standing in open areas

Update: everyone who commented on this is wonderful :D

Update: Justin Perry and Ken Benjes were the first victims of this terrorism known as tornado panic 2010.

All Student Email

Let's talk about All Student Emails!

I think we can all agree that there are just not enough of these. I am constantly hitting refresh on gmail, waiting for more emails to consume, and just not being satiated by the dozens of all student emails I get daily. We should try to up it to around 100 a day. New all student email ideas:

• Has anyone seen my car keys/one card?
• hey does anyone know the name of that guy I was making out with last night?
• yo check out this youtube video
• crazy pianos club emails
• yo what is the great room like tonight, worth going or should I just eat cheese-itz
  

Okay but seriously, let us discuss serious aspects to this.

On Friday Sush sent out an email about a picnic thing at the PaxRiver museum of army airplane things. I don't really know why because it cost like 15$, and that is nearly 1.5 handles of Rikaloff; my point being that it doesn't seem like a great value compared to the amount of Rikaloff you could buy for that amount.

So then Rogachevsky dude (what a cool name) responded to the all student email (which according to faculty, this happens a lot with all faculty emails, and it's really obnoxious) expressed his opinion that it's dumb to have a picnic at a place that glorifies/commemorates weapons of mass destruction. I think it's kinda dumb to send out an email like that, but it's cool that he is that committed to his values I guess?

So then Aaron Guffey (student, in charge of college repubs or somesuch) responds and is just a huge ass to this dude. I think that Rogachevsky (I wish this was my name) had a fair point calling the planes WMDs because ultimately even a drone can/will lead to the deaths of people usually.

I mean, I guess he didn't have to be mean and say that he was being 'asinine', just making your point would have been sufficient.

Okay this is a really long post but I have other things to discuss maybe. Like this email today from Binta D about volunteering for 'Spring Festival' for the Holy Faith Church (cool name bro) up at the fairgrounds. I don't think this is something that should be advertised in all student emails, because it has nothing to do with the school or students, it's just looking for volunteers for an outside event. But what do you guys think?

Also I really dislike All Student Email THAT ARE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS but that is just a pet peeve really.

Also I heard once that a decade ago, when all student email was introduced, everyone had it and it caused massive PANIC and absurdity. I think we should go back to that/stop giving club leaders all student email access. Maybe criteria should be more like if your club has a reason to send out a lot of emails (like Habitat) or if you have a job/student position that requires you to send out a fair amount of emails (some SGA positions, and like IE or Admissions jobs). I dunno though.

Leave thoughts in the comments.