Avoiding plows and tows

Hamline
What’s plowed when:
If snow has fallen, there will be no parking from 11 p.m. on the day indicated until 7 a.m. the following morning.
Sunday: Drew lot (lot B) and the president’s lot (lot C)
Monday: Heating plant lot and law lot (lot E)
Tuesday: Apartment surface lot (lot F), Taylor Ave., and physical plant lot (lot P)
Wednesday: Drew lot (lot B) and president’s lot (lot C)
Thursday: Heating plant lot and law lot (lot E)
Friday: Drew lot (lot B), apartment surface lot (lot F) and physical plant lot (lot P)
Saturday: Taylor Ave., law lot (lot E) and heating plant lot

Flighty goodwill: Volunteers flock to homeless shelters during holiday season, but falter in service during other months

People are being turned away from Sharing and Caring Hands, a Minneapolis shelter for the homeless.

Food is plentiful, donations come in spades, and there is plenty of floor space in the building for the hundreds of homeless who visit the shelter daily. There is no room, however, for the hordes of people looking to get some holiday volunteering under their belts this season.

“We are overwhelmed with phone calls from people wanting to do holiday volunteering,” said Connie Worthman, a year-round volunteer at the shelter.

Worthman said that Sharing and Caring Hands has already booked most of the available volunteer hours through July and that during the holidays, an even greater number of people are looking for opportunities to help out.

Spanish becoming foreign to students

Willful neglect on the part of Garvin Davenport in particular and the administration in general has left Spanish faculty demoralized and students irate.

Enrollments have doubled, tripled, and quadrupled, yet no full-time faculty positions have been added since the time of Ken Janzen, dean of the college at least 20 years ago.

Yet the two full-time faculty members have actually been told by Davenport to “do more with less.” Less help, with more students!

The final blow came last year when PDC put Spanish at the top of its list for faculty hires, but Davenport overruled their decision. Insult was added to injury when Donald Rice retired from the modern languages department, and Spanish was not considered for that vacancy.

Palahniuk’s new plague

It isn’t often that authors write so gruesomely that their readers are known to pass out during public readings or even in the comfort of their own homes.

There is only one author whose text is so vivid and excruciating that people are warned about before they pick up one of his books to read. That man is Chuck Palahniuk.

I have just been able to get a hold of a copy of one of his latest novels, Lullaby, through the Macalester library.

We all know that tuition sucks the money right out of students’ pockets and that actually buying books is
saved for the start of each semester, not for fun.

A tour of the university’s winter athletic facilities

Hutton Arena

The Piper men’s and women’s basketball programs and volleyball team have called the historic Hutton Arena their home since the facility first opened in 1937.

The facility was originally dedicated as Norton Fieldhouse on Jan. 4, 1937, and was built at the cost of $100,000. Hamline hosted Stanford University in the first game played at Norton, losing 58-26.

In 1967, the fieldhouse was renovated at a cost of $800,000. The old bleachers were torn down and a four-inch thick concrete slab for the base was installed. New fluorescent lights were mounted and the ceiling was painted. A new Tartan floor with a total usable area of nearly 11,000 square feet replaced the wooden floor. New rollaway bleachers and six motorized backboards were also installed.

Under the covers... with Molly Kirwan

Dear Molly:
I live in a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate. Lately he has been complaining that my girlfriend and I are too loud during sex and that it bothers him. He is my friend and I don’t want him to be upset with me, but I also like to take advantage of the newfound freedom of having an apartment and not living in the dorm or with my parents anymore. Anyway, I would rather just enjoy myself and make sure my girlfriend is enjoying herself than worry about whether we’re being loud. If sex is a natural and healthy thing, isn’t expressing how good it feels also a natural and healthy thing?
Loud and Loving It

Yes, LLI, expressing how you feel during sex is a natural and healthy thing to do. I’m certainly a huge advocate of verbal communication during the act.

But I would suggest articulating these sentiments to your partner, not the whole neighborhood. Though I wish that sex was a topic that most anyone could feel comfortable discussing at any point in time, there is a difference between talking about sex with others and actively forcing your sex life upon unwitting bystanders.