On Tuesday, it was announced that the theme of the 34th annual Middlemarch Ball will be Las Vegas. Students with tickets should come dressed according to the theme to the O'Connell House, which will be decorated appropriately. Students must go through specific steps before they are eligible to buy tickets, including a scavenger hunt during which participants will collect points, which will then place them in a lottery system. Students will then be chosen at random, and permitted to buy the highly coveted tickets. The price of tickets has been lowered to $40 from $55 of years past.
ON CAMPUS BC athlete gained work ethic by digging more than just the ice Recently featured in an article in the Boston Globe, Benn Ferriero, CSOM '09, was noted not only for his help in leading the men's hockey team to become Beanpot champions but also for an unusual hobby. He spent his youth digging for and selling clams on the Essex River, an activity which he said he still enjoys today. Known for his work ethic and quiet mannerisms both on and off the ice, Boston College hockey coach Jerry York told reporters that he attributed Ferriero's success to the way he was raised. Ferriero's father employed a unique workout regime for his sons and encouraged them to work for their money by digging clams.
UNIVERSITIES Harvard professors give public access to research articles Harvard University will now be posting faculty research and scholarly articles online where the public may access them for free. This move would bypass academic journals, which had previously bought the rights to such articles and then resold them back to university libraries through an often pricy subscription. Some academic journal officials have spoken against this, saying that the lack of peer revision, which the journals provide, could harm the quality of the research. Faculty who wish to publish their work in an academic journal can opt out of this system by filling out a waiver. All other faculty papers will now be published online.
UF student government argues online voting is unconstitutional The Supreme Court of the University of Florida prohibited an online voting system for student government elections, saying that it would be unconstitutional and would increase instances of voter coercion. The group advocating online elections, Students for Online Voting (SOLVe) presented the government with a petition asking for mandatory online voting, signed by 10 percent of the student body. The Senate vetoed a period of discussion after the decision. Advocates of SOLVe said they would continue to work to make online voting in the next election, as they believed it would double voting turnout. They told reporters that an increase and diversification of active voters would ultimately change the make up of the government.
LOCAL Boston named third greenest city in the nation in new study Boston has been ranked the third greenest city in the United States by a study in the March issue of Popular of Science. Third only to Portland, Ore., and San Francisco, Boston earned this status thanks to its recycling program, public transportation system, and a plan to generate electricity from grass and leaves. According to the magazine, the preliminary plan entails breaking down the leaves into compost and using anaerobic bacteria to break down the grass and produce methane which would act as a power source.
UNDER REPORTED 89-year-old woman takes matters into her own hands Colorado resident Geraldine "Gerry" Palmer was accidentally locked out of her home last Saturday in the bitter cold. Faced with this dilemma, she found an obvious solution: She broke into her own home with an axe. She had stepped outside to rearrange some things that had gotten wet on her patio when the sliding glass door locked behind her. Stuck between the locked door and a pile of snow about 7 feet high, she was trapped. So Palmer, who turns 90 this weekend, picked up a nearby axe she had once used to chop wood, smashed the glass door, reached inside, and unlocked it.
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