Hate? Not at Hamline

On October 4, a Residential Life staff member in Drew Residence Hall woke up with a derogatory term directed at the GLBTAI community written on his white board. The staff member did not live on the GLBTAI floor. He took a picture of it and later showed the picture to security. Within 24 hours, an e-mail was sent to all on-campus residents calling the action a hate incident.

“We choose to inform resident students because it happened in the residence halls; we feel it is also important [to] notify the appropriate communities. In this case, Spectrum was notified and so were the
RA’s,” Patricia Klein, Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Residential Life said.

This incident happened a week after three additional incidents in the residence halls that were originally labeled hate incidents. Two of them were later ruled to be violations of Residential Life codes, but not hate incidents. The third incident kept its label as a hate incident, but because of victim rights, further information was withheld.

Transit travelers tell tales of travails, toils, and transmissions.

Bob Gibbons is one guy who doesn’t seem too upset about the rising gas prices.

Though he’s a car owner, Gibbons rides the bus every day to work.

And the bus is his work.

Gibbons is the Executive Director for Customer Services at MetroTransit, Minneapolis and St. Paul’s public transportation service provider.

No wonder he rides the bus.

According to Gibbons, the rising gas prices are working in favor of MetroTransit. Ridership has been up 9 percent in the past few months.

Editorial: Area desires more local businesses

Many students have probably already realized that the Hamline neighborhood and variety of surrounding businesses leave much to be desired. There simply are not many places for Hamline students to patron in general, not to mention within walking distance. We often find ourselves driving to Dinkytown, the Grand/Selby area, or Roseville for recreation such as bars, shops and restaurants.

We are not downplaying any of the current businesses, such as Gingko Coffee House and the Black Sea
Turkish Restaurant. However, those are only two places that students can, and do, frequent. Specialty shops are also lacking in this area, although Hamline students probably don’t need another excuse to spend money.

Hamline’s neighborhood is lacking the traditional ambiance of a college campus. There is little variety within walking distance. This is a sad state compared to many other campuses. The U of M, for example, has its own town-like area with a general store, bars, restaurants, shops, etc. St. Thomas, St. Kate’s, and Macalaster are all near the illustrious Selby/Grand area.

The reality of film comes to life

Film can’t always be like real life-and that’s a good thing. I don’t know about you, but I’m certainly glad that
I don’t have Hannibal Lecter taking me out for dinner or Darth Vader explaining my paternity. I even think that life as a musical would become a little tiresome.

However, a current trend in filmmaking is to show the intricacies of everyday life suburbia, the sprawling metropolis, the rural hamlet they’ve all been given their fair dose of cinema as of late. Two such films, The
Constant Gardener and A History of Violence, have invaded theaters recently and illustrate both the terrific in contemporary movies and shed light on why so many films of this genre don’t succeed.

The Constant Gardener is the tale of a woman taking on the world of pharmaceuticals and her husband who is drawn into her meddling upon an investigation of her death.

Grab your balls and wickets, cricket comes to Hamline

When I lined up a meeting with Amrit Sharma to discuss Cricket at Hamline, I got excited. After all, I love baseball! In fact I was so jazzed that I went and grabbed my glove, my Vaseline-tipped cap, and my can of ‘Giambi Juice’. I was preparing for what I thought would be a slightly revised version of baseball. To say the very least, I was way off.

It did not take long to learn that although cricket has similarities to America’s pastime, it has very unique qualities of its own. So, for your reading pleasure, I will lay out aspects the general purpose and rules of this fine game called Cricket.

First, there is a process of delivering the ball to the batter or “batsmen”. In baseball it is called pitching. In cricket it is called bowling. The equivalent of a pitcher, then, is a “bowler”.

Second, the batter or “batsmen” must strike the ball with the bat.

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