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“Shooting the Shit While You Take Yours”
Volume 2, Issue 13
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Welcome back.
Tuesday Nights
I hope you guys had a fantastic
7:00 pm: RHA Council in Thanksgiving. I know I did. There
the RHA Office was no turkey, but there was a
large amount of dead cow and
9:00 pm: LHA Meetings in homemade pie on my table that
the Reading Room Thursday. The other days found
me with people I have not seen in
Wednesdays Nights months, doing some incredibly
nostalgic things. All that was
9:00 pm: Whipple Hall sandwiched between two eight
Council in the Fish Bowl hour drives of
music and a mind
After WHC: Wednesday left to wander as it
marginally focused
Night Movie in the Fish on the long desert
Bowl
road.
It was awesome.
We have got two
Weekly Weather weeks left,
(Taken from the Weather.com) gentlemen. This is
November 24 – December 1 the final stretch, the
end of the line, fourth and goal
Wednesday: Sunny with the clock ticking down the
High: 48 final seconds.
Low: 22 If you have not been going to
classes, godspeed. There is really
Thursday: Sunny nothing we can do for you. Shut
yourself in your room or the
High: 47
library for the next two weeks, and
Low: 22
maybe you will be able to make
out of this semester with a little bit
Friday: 100 % chance of of dignity and your Millennium.
Chuck Norris kicking your ass
Those of you who have actually
Saturday: Mostly Sunny been students for the past
semester, good job. We are almost
High: 47
out of it alive. When finals wrap
Low: 20 up, we get rewarded with a month
of freedom. For you freshmen out
Sunday: Partly Cloudy
High: 41 Selected Headlines
Low: 22
- Obama orders 30,000 troop
Monday: Rain/Snow Showers buildup in Afganistan
High: 43
- Seattle police kill suspect in
Low: 20
officer slayings
Tuesday: Rain/Snow Showers -Tempers flare as Senate moves
High: 40 toward health vote
Low: 25 - Iran releases 5 British sailors
November 30, 2009
New from the Lincoln
Hall Association
there, it is pretty amazing feeling
when you realize that there is no
paper due at the end of the break.
There is nothing you have to read.
Sorry I missed the meeting,
You are completely free from the gentlemen. From what I've read
moment your last final lets you from the minutes, everything
out till when you come back after looks good. I do mourn the loss
the break. of Jacob Camp as an RA next
semester, however, we will
These next few weeks will
probably see a range of emotions
move on. Here's a summary of
out of every resident. There are the minutes.
those who have
already mentally • Jacob Camp announced his
checked out, those resignation. If you see him, be
who will yell and sure to tell him he will be
scream if it is too
missed.
loud and those
who will just
disappear from • The Banquet has changed to
view in the day to a group outing to the Winter
day events of our Extravaganza. Tuesday at 5:30.
hall. Get your tickets soon.
However you
decide to deal with the upcoming • The Easter festival is now
finals, please make sure that you known as the Bunny Bonanza.
keep in mind that there are others Talk to Easter Council for more
who may be doing something details.
completely different. Please
refrain from yelling, even if the • The oldest residence hall on
other guy was being a loud idiot in
campus is expecting to leap
the middle of the hallway.
into the 2010's with a bang.
Keep it up, guys. We only have a Wireless internet is expected
few weeks left
next semester.
• There is a pool tournament in
Stay Positive. the works. It'll have a buy in
- Brian Parcon
and a prize. Proceeds go to
Room 312
LHA.
And that's the long and short of
it. Remember that all meetings
happen on Tuesday nights at
- FSU coach Bowden to end 44- 9:00pm in the Reading Room.
year coaching career Come by help us run the place
a little bit better.
- Stocks climb as falling dollar
boosts commodities
- Economic reports signal modest
growth ahead - Brian Parcon
- Oil settles above $78 Room 312
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Interview with an Athi: Race Quoted for Emphasis

Unless you have spent the and lived in, race is a clear The intimate interaction
last few days back with your label between “our people” between families and close The one thing that unifies men
eyes closed when you walked vs. “foreigners”. To Thai friends, for example, in a given age is not their
through either White Pine's people, there isn’t much hugging, kissing before or individual
or Lincoln's respective importance or stress to oh, after leaving the house or
lobbies, you have probably you are European, getting home. Thai people, philosophies but the dominant
noticed some posters dealing Australian, British, German, or Asians mostly are very problem that these
with the issues of Race. In or American. Anyone who shy about expressing or philosophies are designed to
this interview we have an in doesn’t have dark black hair, acting out their affection. It’s solve.
depth look on difference brown-black eyes are not something you grow up
between some cultures and considered “foreigners.” I doing, therefore I sincerely
our own. find that fascinating. enjoy and adore American
--Jacques Barzun
customs of hugging and
Interview: What are some of the kissing your parents, family
The Lovely Athiwan negative cultural norms in and close friends.
Yaemmuan the Unites States that you Poetry Corner
have observed? What is the first thing that
Can you name all of the comes to mind when you
countries you have visited? Lack of respect to elders and hear the word “Racism?”
parents. In Thailand it would
Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, never be acceptable to hit Ignorance Pin-holes in the Universe
Nepal, Tibet, India one’s parents or elders nor
What are some of the curse and call them names. I Seek a sailing tear
major differences between notice it’s much more laid
how race is viewed in other back here in America. Secrets murmured on whims.
countries versus the United What are some of the -Whipple RAs
States? and
positive cultural norms in Athiwan Yaemmuan
In the majority of the the Unites States that you - Jacob Crawley
countries I’ve traveled to have observed? Room 219

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