News Briefs

HIRC brings back medallion hunt

Back from a two-year hiatus, the HIRC medallion hunt has returned to campus. The medallion guarantees the finder first room draw for fall semester 2005, HIRC president Jon Guyer said.

Clues will be released on a daily basis at 4:00 p.m. and will be posted on a bulletin board in the student center.

Light rail transit could be headed for Midway

After almost five years of construction on the now-completed Hiawatha Light Rail Transit Line, Minneapolis taxpayers, community members, businesses, organizations, and commuters are ready to turn the headaches of a major construction zone over to St. Paul.

The success of the new light rail has raised discussion and led to the proposal of a new light rail transit system on University Avenue, dubbed the Central Corridor.

Six years is a while from now, however, and work is now just in the planning stages. The Central Corridor
Coordinating Committee (CCCC) heads up the planning division. The committee is composed of representatives from Ramsey and Hennepin Counties, St. Paul, Minneapolis, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, and the Metropolitan Council.

Letter to the Editor: Students’ chance to voice concerns and opinions to legislators

This was a good year for public education in Minnesota, with Ką12 funding up approximately five percent and MNSCU (Minnesota Secondary Colleges and Universities) up almost 10 percent. The private institutions, however, did not fare quite as well.

Students at Minnesota’s 17 private colleges feel federal funding most directly through the state grant program. Across the state, an average of about one in four private college students receives a state grant.
Here at Hamline, 752 students receive a total of $2,491,618, for an average annual award of $3,313.

Even if you do not receive one of these grants, chances are a friend or roommate does. Also, the monies freed up by the $2.5 million that comes from the state allows for broader distribution of institutional aid.

Umbrella Bed fights to keep the local and ska music scene alive

Some things just never go away, and for the die-hards like local act Umbrella Bed, there is the hope that the world of ska music will continue to stick around.

For the past 10 years, Umbrella Bed has been an important part of the Twin Cities ska scene, being one of the founding members of the local scene and having lived through the ups and downs that the genre has experienced over the last decade.

Hamline sophomore Aaron Porter is one of the latest additions to the band’s ever-evolving lineup. He met the group through his work booking shows for MNSKA.com, a local group devoted to the revival and prosperity of the ska scene in Minnesota, and through one of his other bands, Gylbots. Porter was invited on last year to replace a departing member as the 10-or-so-piece band’s second guitarist.

Sports Briefs

Piper gymnastics finishes second

Hamline’s gymnastics team finished second at the Gershon Invtational, backed by a third-place finish from sophomore All-American Brittany Ehlis in the all-around competition.

The Pipers finished with a score of 179.025 behind three-time national champion UW-La Crosse, who scored 182.15. Gustavus was third, with UW-Oshkosh, UW-Stout, and Winona State rounding out the field.

Ehlis scored 36.125 in four events, including a 9.3 in the uneven bars. Senior co-captain Kristin Driscoll tied for the best score in the floor exercise with a score of 9.55. Seniors Meggan McClelland and
Stephanie Sasik led the team in the vault, both scoring a 8.925. Junior Renae Stinar scored a 9.25 on the balance beam to lead Hamline.

Under the covers... With Molly Kirwan

Dear Molly:

I’ve heard people talk about the G-spot, and I kind of know what it is, but I don’t know that I’ve ever felt anything that special in that area during sex. I’ve talked to some of my friends about it, and they say that they’ve never felt anything there either. One of my guy friends says that it is a myth. What is the deal? Does the G-spot really exist?

Trying to Spot the Spot

So there is a tad bit of controversy surrounding the G-spot, probably based on the fact that some women feel overcome with amazing sexual sensation when stimulated in the G-spot area, and others feel absolutely nothing. And some people (mostly men, I imagine) can’t understand how women could possibly be different and are therefore skeptical about this sweet spot’s existence.