Alcohol, pepper spray and crystal meth contribute to Fire Ball fracas

The Fire Ball turned raucous last week as students leaving the dance began pushing and shoving to get onto the shuttle buses waiting to take them back to campus. Two students reported that they were hit with pepper spray used by an off-duty Minneapolis police officer who appeared to be controlling the crowd.

Dean of Students Alan Sickbert, Director of Student Activities Kelly Krebs, and Director of Media Services
Brian Johnson chaperoned the event and reported that problems began when students began spilling out of Solera’s crowded entryway, onto the sidewalk and into the street.

Although there were enough buses to take the students back to campus, Sickbert said, the unexpectedly bad weather caused the buses to take longer to return to Solera after dropping off the first round of riders.

Light Rail in the Midway: Residents and business owners not optimistic about the benefits of LRT

Midway area residents and business owners are taking matters into their own hands as the decision
about light rail draws near.

Tom Stransky, owner of the Midway Book Store for 25 years, has been opposed to the idea of light rail on University Avenue since it was first discussed 20 years ago, when it was decided that the light rail would go down Interstate 94 if it was implemented at all.

“Back then, people were concerned about transit,” he said. “And now it’s people that are concerned with big business development.”

Letter to the Editor: Hamline's diversity is better than we think

I have been a student at Hamline University since 2000. The editorial written by Angela Robertson was mirrored with sentiments that I have seen in every Oracle I have read. These arguments have become generic, mean-spirited, and unfounded. Their arguments point to the predominant whiteness in our campus demographic. These students do not bother to look at the external reasons (along with other internal considerations) that affect their view and are entirely beyond Hamline's control.

1. Campuses around the nation are having problems filling their admissions goals for freshman classes. In many instances, schools are accepting practically anyone who applies. Unfortunately then, Hamline can not accept more international, non-white, or female students. Like other colleges, they accept those who want to attend. Our campus demographic is a product of who is applying to the campus.

Students learn from fellow classmate about why an old film is appreciated

While sitting in the Sorin Dining Hall, discussing movies, as I often do, I brought up one of my all-time favorite movies: Citizen Kane.

You know the one, the film that seems to sit atop every critic’s list of greatest flicks the world has ever known, the one that ushered in the career of Orson Welles and so erroneously lost the Academy Award.

Much to my dismay, I heard all of the people at the table say they’d never seen the movie, and one person asked me what the big deal was, why it was ranked so highly among the thousands of films that have come out since Edison sneezed into the camera. Here is my response.

Citizen Kane was a revolution in Hollywood. Here was Orson Welles, the young boy genius, taking his first
giant leap into the film industry with a parody on the life of William Randolph Hearst.

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