Donate your unwanted items

Yall, do you have clothes, food, books, couches, dildos, etc. that you no longer want after this semester?  Donate them!  There are boxes around campus in the laundry rooms where you can place stuff, and they are color coded

• blue:  food
• purple:  clothes
• green:  school supplies
• red:  pornography

So if you have stuff you don't want, you know where to leave it!

There will also be a Free Market on May 4th.  woahz

Additionally check out this link which is a craigslist type thing with listings of stuff that people no longer want, like couches.  Email eneu@smcm.edu if you want to list something.

Natty Boh Hunt!

The Natty Boh Hunt was this past saturday!  I hope everyone had a good time.  I hid a dozen beers (including two in my first year residence, I'm looking at your PG 116!).  I thought it was a lot more fun hiding beers than looking for them, but I hope all you underclassmen had a great time!

SGA Meeting 4/19/2011 Recap

Cool meeting, went on for 2.5 hours and I was pretty sleepy by the end.

• Today I decided to say ‘present’ instead of ‘here’ during the Roll Call
• I would like to thank Senator Reighart for passing out the name tags during the meeting
• Student Speakout
• Joanna Purich
• Talking about why we should not raise student fees, led to a long discussion. Senator Chandwaney asked if it was rude to ask her to stop talking, to which we all responded, yes that is rude, please allow her to continue talking.
• Girl who works at Chick Fil A kinda defending the group via they give out scholarships and such.  
• Cool to see someone who opposed banning Chick Fil A showing up to voice an unpopular opinion
• A group of 8 kids saying why we should sever ties with Chick Fil A
• They mentioned something like ‘putting down human beings, just like you and me’ but I am actually a robot, so I take offense to this comment, assuming that I am a puny human
• On facebook Lisa Neu said that I was ‘best chair ever’ (via chairing the SGA meetings)
• Thinking about writing a resolution thanking the class of 2011 exec board for getting 1$ beers at the pub on the 28th of April
• That bill regarding increasing the time for walking between classes is back up since Senator Chandwaney is here today.  
• Senator Reighart pointed out that this will affect ‘feeding times’ via we are all farm animals
• Did not pass
• Relay for Life Club!  They have done it for two years now and it’s been super successful and cool, so this is a good idea.  
• I totally knew that Treasurer Smith wanted to say something so I called on him before he raised his hand
• Yo the two girls presenting this club constitution have cool ass shoes.  Gold Cleopatra sandals and Sperrys.  
• One of them taught a Zuma class (that weird work out thing that I do not understand) which made me giggle
• This club passed
• I want to write a resolution that says ‘Kelly Schroeder is pretty cool’
• Next is a resolution in support of publicizing bias-based harassment
• Some kids have been targeted on campus for race, sexual identity, and other things, all of which sucks
• Senator McGrath admitted that he is a windbag
• This passed
• A Bylaws Amendment to put the Club Coordinator on Finance Board.  The reasoning is the Finance Board does funding stuff with clubs, so this would give the Club Coordinator a lot more understanding of what clubs are asking for.
• Senator White just said ‘freshman’...tisk tisk
• This passed
• A Resolution urging the school to sever ties with Chick Fil A
• So delicious but so homophobic, sigh
• President Santangelo would in fact not support a resolution forcing people who eat Chick Fil A to go to camps.  I love camp, but I don’t think he was talking about fun camps.
• Senator Chandwaney said that Starbucks does nothing wrong.  He is incorrect though I feel via Starbucks being anti-union, don’t use fair-trade coffee, also they are hella expensive.
• President O’Neil just said ‘damn’...SGA is getting into bad language!
• This passed after much debate

Coooool SGA meeting wooo

Student Fees Increase

So as yall may know the SGA is tryna increase student fees by $25, from $235 to $260.  I remember when I was a young first year and I didn't know what student fees were I thought they were bullshit.  But they contribute to a bunch of things, including terrorist organizations like The Point News.

Anyway, we're tryna raise them because they have not been raised since 2003 for the purpose of increasing the SGA budget.  They have been raised twice in the past few years for green initiatives that students felt were worth paying more money for.  But since 2003, the operating budget of the SGA has remained the same, despite inflation and other new costs.  These things include:

• New clubs!  Several new clubs are created every year, and some are hella expensive like Crew and club sports via tournament fees, and other clubs like FUSE like to host cool events and have speakers.
• Inflation!  Stuff goes up in price over time like
• Media tech and club sports trainer salaries/fees
• Movie screening fees
• Gas prices
• Prices of goods that clubs buy via SGA funds
• Costs to bring in speakers
• etc.
• Campus farm and bike shop are two things that the SGA is helping to fund, two organizations that students have shown that they feel are important to the campus.
• Bribing people!
• The thousands of dollars that Marlena and I funnel from the SGA budget every month, which we spend on hookers and cocaine!
• This stuff is hella expensive which is a large contributing factor to the student fee increase.

Anyway, please comment with thoughts or responses, and if you have further questions please come to the SGA meeting tonight at 8 in Schaefer 106 where you will be able to ask questions and such.

Also if you want to see the SGA budget it's on the SGA website.

Class of 2013 Shirts

The class of 2013 (inferior to class of 2011 obv.) is selling T-Shirts with Dr. Urgo on them.  They look like this.

These look pretty rad!  The yellow is kinda weird though, it reminds me of both pee and 1970s nostalgia, two things which I dislike.  Also he should have a hat maybe via hats are great.

They cost $13 dollars which is an unlucky number so possibly you should avoid buying these.  But if you don't believe in LUCK then you can probably buy one via Joe Santangelo.  Email him.

Also, not really sure what 'el presidente' means.  I think it may be in a foreign language but I cannot read it so I believe this may cause the shirt to have limited appeal.

I also imagine that if I found this in a thrift store and didn't understand the context I would think it was teh greatest thing ever.

World Carnival

Sad :[ .  World Carnival is one of my favorite events.  Was looking forward to watching quidditch and not understanding what was going on in this game.  And inflatable stuff.  Inflatables are supposed to be used next semester for welcome back weekend...they should probably use them this weekend instead because that would be more fun for me.

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Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

The History Club will be showing Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure on 4/20.  Laughing so hard right now.

LQ Eatery

Have yall been to the Lewis Quad Eatery/Pub.  They serve food there!  And sometimes alcohol!  My friends and I were worried about the prices of alcohol, but it's not that bad

• Corona (kinda ew) 1.75
• Heineken (I like this beer because Ken is in the name) 2.50
• Various Sam Adams's 3.00
• Wine 3.00 (Note that a cup of wine is a small cup.  Also apparently the 'glass of wine a day' rule does not apply to pint glasses, but rather only wine glasses')

All the stuff comes from bottles (woo) but they pour it into cups (lame).  There is also food

• Nachos 3.00 and they are delicious
• Nachos with meat 4.50 if you are into that
• Burrito 6.00 these were okay but I'd rather get more nachos

WHAT SHOULD IT BE NAMED?!?!

Last week they had a survey.  I liked 8th Wonder and The Pub.  Someone last week made a fake edit to the SMCM wikipedia regarding the pub and called it The Sloppy Oyster which made my roommates and myself laugh a lot.

Anyway every thursday (including today) there will be alcohol.  Hopefully professors will show up to discuss academic topics/buy us boooze.  

Not much else to say, except that they really need to dim those lights.  Also there is free popcorn.

SGA Meeting 4/12/2011 Recap

Short meeting!

• There was a resolution to increase the time between classes from 10 minutes to 15 minutes.  The idea is that this would increase civility because people would have more time to talk to each other.  We decided to table this resolution because the person who created it did not show up to the SGA meeting.  I found this quite annoying at the time, but now I think it’s kinda funny/stupid.
• Senator Walls used the term ‘Gypped’ which I found offensive because it is a derogatory term towards the Gypsies.  It would be like saying “I got Jewed on this deal”.  How can a future Student Trustee use such offensive language?
• Senator McGrath informed us that someone pooped in a DPC laundry machine.
• Senator McGrath also rescued a baby duck because he is a god.
• Said baby duck was apparently adorable.

Santiago Replaced, Rumor Mill Begins!

Yes!  Finally an event worthy of rumor mongering.  As yall saw in the email, Chief Santiago has been replaced by some other dude (A Sheriff!).  But no one (that I know) knows why!  Mysteriousssss

RUMOR MILL TIME

• First we have the rumor that Dean Bayless is Umbridge (via Harry Potter).  This is a dumb rumor because it is mean and obviously she does not have magical powers and this is not Harry Potter land.  This sort of stuff just contributes to incivility on campus and it kinda immature.  
• Next, there is the rumor that Santiago was a reptilian.  Reptilians are reported to live in the core of the Earth and control the world via conspiracy theories.  Maybe he was one of them and it got found out!?!?!  More information here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilians
• A somewhat more reasonable rumor, we have an anonymous commentator on some terrorist website saying the following:  rumor has it there was some shady stuff going on at the staff level that students weren’t aware of. there were some serious issues at PS and there needed to be some changes made – he needed to go.  Oooo fascinating! 
• Not really sure what kind of shady stuff could be going on though.  Forging overtime?  Selling seized goods/drugs?  PROSTITUTION RING???
• Bribes???

Anyways, it's clear that he was replaced and didn't leave of his own volition, but we haven't been told why, and who knows if we will.  It's a shame since he was so open and interested in student opinion.

UPDATE:  Just re-read the email and realized that currently Dean Bayless is the Director of Public Safety which is funny.  Not in a haha way but just kinda silly maybe.  Mostly it amuses me I think.  But that would be cool to have on your resume.