The new Hamm's Shotgunning Championship Belt

Apparently SJU and UST now play for a Traveling Trophy called the Holy Grail... note the little crosses on it.

The Holy grail is then passed around to all the freshmen on each campus to drink Hamm's from it and be merry.

Institution of higher learning or cattle barn?

Being a fairly recent graduate of St. John's University, I like to stay abreast of what is happening on campus. Usually this involves knowing who the Johnnies will destroy next in football, when homecoming is/was, profs that are retiring/taking other jobs... stuff like that.

That was until about a week ago when I learned that Life Safety, SJU's rent-a-cops (think Barney Fife + 200 lbs in Aviator sunglasses on an ego trip), requested more funding from the school to buy Tasers!!! Yes, Tasers those devices that police use to bring down armed assailants using several hundred volts of electricity.

These devices are so powerful and controversial that they are illegal to use on animals in several states, yet campus security wants to use them on students.

Life Safety is also in charge of the campus Emergency Medical Response Team (EMT's) and their budget. Last year at graduation, the SJU EMT's did not have enough wheelchair's for the handicapped friends and family of the graduates. In stead of spending money to buy them or even rent them Life Safety's response was to borrow wheelchair's from the Monastery while some monks sat in bed all day with no means of mobility!

We don't have enough wheelchair's to allow all handicapped people on campus to be mobile at the same time. In stead of requesting more money to cope with that problem (Life Safety requested $0.00 in funding increase for the EMT's), let's buy stuff so undertrained overweight wannabe cops on power trips can electrocute the hell out of students.

Is Life Safety trying to run an institution of higher learning or a cattle barn?

Hooters vs Prudes

Many people around this great country of ours have at least once had the pleasure of walking into a Hooter's Restaurant and enjoying the tasty hot wings while sipping on a cold beer.

Hooter's wants to bring their Delightfully Tacky yet unrefined approach to the "Block E" section of downtown Minneapolis. Apparently Blocks A-D fizzled out...

A local feminazi, Colleen Barry, is opposed to the idea saying "Since they built Block E based on getting some drugs and some not-good stuff out of this area, why put it back in?"

Yes, Colleen, Hooters sells cocaine and meth and if you tip your waitress well, you might even score some Extasy.

What Hooters has this woman been to? I've only been to 3 different Hooters' and I was never offered drugs... do I not look cool enough?

What exactly is the "not-good stuff" she wishes to keep out of this area? Good looking women? Great hot wings? People who want to eat good food? Beer? A restaurant that will draw people in who will likely look at other shops and but stuff while they are there?

Lets look at the "Good stuff" that is currently in "Block E":

Jewel Spa- women come and strip down to next to nothing and allow people they have never met to touch them all over... and you're worried about Hooters' girls being scantily clad?

Panchero's Mexican Grill: Immitation Chipotle that isn't even close...Panchero's should be banned from existence and Chipotle's should be built in all of their current locations

Escape Ultra Lounge: A bar/nightclub that looks like it was designed by and for people tripping on Extasy.

The Shout House: Another place that serves alcohol as their primary means of income... at least Hooters sells food!

Starbucks': The very symbol of everything that is wrong with America

Cold Stone Creamery: A place that sells icecream so fattening they won't even let you see the calorie or fat content.



Summery: Hooter's won't be bringing alcohol into Block E, it already flows there freely. Hooters' won't be immitating any superior restaurants (Panchero's seriously sucks a lot, doesn't even compare to Chipotle who I recently e-mailed about opening a store in Des Moines), they won't be producing 1000+ calorie ice cream bowls, and they won't be selling overpriced over-caffinated drinks to hippies.

I guess this means the only thing new Hooters' is bringing to Block E is scantily clad attractive women... because as we all know, there aren't any drunk hoochies wearing miniskirts at a night club called the Escape Ultra Lounge.

I think Colleen is just jealous... damn Feminazi!