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I spent 24 hours in a bagel shop. Here’s what I learned.

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The longest top-row word that can be typed on a typewriter is 'rupturewort', a type of plant, and Peru is the only country that can be typed on one row of a keyboard.

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SPORTS

Tennis matchmaking app fosters love of the game

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ARTS

‘Beth-Anne’ creatives horse around at undercurrents festival

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A masterpiece on the street

 

In front of Sugar Mountain, one of François Pelletier’s sketches after the rain (Photo: Lasia Kretzel)

 

There’s a proper way to petition

The whole point of a petition is that signing it is voluntary. A petitioner’s presence should not present an infringement of mobility or time any more than a poster on a wall. An ideal team of petitioners would involve no more than two casually dressed individuals who never impede traffic. In an ideal world, this would be true.

Considering what I experienced the other week, Carleton is by no means a model universe.

Give grads the green

Striving to be eco-friendly is not just about attaining a trendy, chic status for aesthetic reasons. Sustainability is a crucial quality that all institutions should seek.

The proposal to create a green roof above the Graduate Students’ Association’s (GSA) lounge is exactly the type of initiative that Carleton should be supporting in order to make progress in this area; green roofs reduce the amount of energy buildings consume.

But the students spearheading this project say administration is holding back support and failing to tell them why.

Bedroom no place for policy

The last thing a student wants to come home to after a tough biology midterm or long French oral exam is a roommate conjugating more than verbs with a significant (or not-so-significant) other.

Sometimes students feel like giving their inconsiderate roommates the shaft. Now, at Tufts University near Boston  they can, thanks to a new policy that obliges students to keep it in their pants while their roommates are around.

Overheard @ Carleton

Girl 1: I haven’t eaten this much since I got back from ‘Nam . . .
Girl 2: Nom nom nom nom nom . . .
 




Guy 1: So, my sister brought her friend with the fake boobs over last night.
Guy 2: Oh, yeah?
Guy 1: Yeah. They were niiice!
 




Girl: Do you mind if I turn on the wall? It’s already hard so I don’t have much work to do.
 

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