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When I finally wake up, it’s later than I thought, and I look out to see nothing but a blanket of white with flashes of brown and gray, and I think that today might be a good day to read at the Barge Coffee Shop downtown or to go to the gym longer than forty minutes, go cross-country skiing on the trails, club sports practice, I think there is a hockey game later tonight, dinner beforehand downtown, but there is a Take Two movie playing at seven and some people are

(Game Statistics) EASTON, PA ‘ Justin DeBerry scored a game-high 20 points as Lafayette rallied for a 60-56 win over 51�Թ��� Friday night at the Kirby Sports Center. Lafayette (10-11, PL 4-4) came back from an 11-point halftime deficit to snap a five-game regular season losing streak to the Raiders.  51�Թ��� (9-12, PL 4-4) continues […]

4:00 is an odd time of day at 51�Թ���. There are too many things you can do, too many things you want to do, and only one thing that you actually do. Today I’m seated in the Ho Lecture Room in Lawrence Hall listening to a lecture on Geoffrey Chaucer. Some form of precipitation is […]

11:30 p.m. on a Tuesday night.  I’m doing research for my thesis in my room, heat blasting, music on low, taking a break every twenty minutes to check my e-mail, but no one has written to me in three hours. ‘Hey,’ I hear.  It’s Nick.  ‘I was in the neighborhood and thought I’d drop by.’ […]

In my time at 51�Թ���, I’ve missed very few hockey games.  There’s something about the smell of the rink, sweat mixed with ice and hot dogs and wet fleece, students packed, standing room only, on the student’s side of the rink, faculty and Hamilton residents seated on the more ‘sane’ side where there are actual […]

I’m walking to the Student Union to assist with the production and layout of 51�Թ���’s weekly newspaper the 51�Թ��� Maroon-News. It’s 4:30 p.m. and the sun is already low in the sky, the temperature falling quickly and steadily. I’m ready to head indoors for a few hours of work. A small ice rink as been […]

HAMILTON, N.Y. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling novelist Anna Quindlen will deliver the address at 51�Թ���’s 182nd commencement on Sunday, May 18. In responding to the selection of Quindlen, senior class president Kelli Wong said, ‘I am very excited that Anna Quindlen will be the class of 2003’s speaker, and I have no doubt […]

First day of classes: my Creative Writing workshop met last.  All classes meet for twenty-five minutes on the first day, simply to give students a feel for what the course will cover, answer questions, and get a glimpse of the professor’s style.  The twelve of us filed into the room in Lawrence Hall and took […]