Admin: Recruiting will continue on campus

The university will continue to allow military recruiters on campus, CLA Dean Garvin Davenport and several professors said.

The decision was first announced in the March CLA faculty meeting after professor Stephen Kellert asked Davenport about the status of the recruiters, professor Duane Cady said.

Davenport said the decision was made by the president’s cabinet, a group consisting of university vice presidents and deans. The group was advised by Hamline’s School of Law and outside experts, he said.

The Oracle reported on March 1 that if the university disallowed military recruitment on campus, they would be denied federal funding.

Midway women and Women’s History Month: Women business owners help create the Midway environment

Women own many of the businesses, new and old, in the Midway area. Some have been opened and run by women and others bought and taken over by women. As March is Women’s History Month, here is a
tribute to a few of the women business owners in the community.

A bit of background

Maria Ricke and Lori Greene met last year in an art class. In June, they discussed the idea of opening a shop together. This past November, they opened Mosaic on a Stick, located at 595 Snelling Ave. N.

The young and the restless have been coupled with the old and wise in the Midway. Hamline Hardware and Paint first opened in 1926 by the Hagen family. Now, for the past 40 years, Gerry Hagen has kept the business alive after a fatal car accident took her husband’s life.

Editorial

On March 2, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, announced that they plan to push for legislation that would extend FCC
regulations to cable networks, such as HBO and FX, and to satellite radio stations, like Sirius. According to Stevens, families wind up viewing inappropriate programs because they don’t know which channels are cable and which are on the regular network.

Currently, federal regulations ban broadcast stations from airing obscene material and place restrictions on so-called indecent material, like profanity and sexually explicit dialogue. The reason for the desired change? “In this country, there has to be some standards of decency,” says Steves.

That’s a troubling sentence. “It’s not fair to subject over-the-air broadcasters to one set of rules and subject cable and satellite to no rules,” according to Barton. But fair is actually a pretty good word to describe the current system. Why on earth should cable stations be subjected to the same regulations as regular broadcasts? People have to pay money for cable, and it’s likely that they have a pretty good idea of what they are getting when they order HBO or the Playboy channel.

Remakes are mirror reflections at best

Each year, they attack us in our theater seats. We feel that plague of familiarity, remembering that we’ve seen this somewhere before. It’s the dreaded, easy route that studios take, otherwise known as remakes - a moviegoer’s worst nightmare.

Remakes are a cheap way to make people shell out eight dollars to watch something they’d enjoy more by making a stop by their nearest Blockbuster. It’s mostly due to the intrigue factor, seeing how someone will reinvent a classic. Possibly there’s the will-it-be-better-than-the-original allure that generates interest, but trust me on this: That’s hardly ever true. But whatever the reason, studios keep coming back for more and more. In the next year, prepare to have déjà vu over, among others, King Kong, All the President’s Men, The Pink Panther, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Young makes 40 saves in 1-0 conference loss to Augsburg

In their final weekend of play, the Pipers were unable to topple Augsburg, losing 6-2 and 1-0 on Feb. 24 at Augsburg. Six different Auggies scored in the game.

Hamline trailed 2-0 before first year Emily Toenes scored on Auggie goaltender Kristin Johnson.

Sophomore Andrea Davis provided the assist on the power-play goal.

Augsburg retaliated with another goal before the break.

When the teams returned to the ice, Augsburg scored twice in the second period to take a 5-1 lead.

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