The 1880

Commencement Info Session

Yes, we have to sing that song, too.

Just got back from the Commencement Information Session thing. If you didn’t make it, or didn’t pick up a program, here are the important bits:

Arrive by 9:30am on Monday, May 19th to your line-up location.
School of the Arts (Performing Arts, VMA, WLP) and Interdisciplinary Studies Arts majors go to the Courtyard Marriott Empire Ballroom, First Floor 275 Tremont Street.
School of Communication (CSD, Journalism, Marketing Communication & OPC) and Interdisciplinary Studies Communication majors Citi Performing Arts Center [formerly Wang] Basement 270 Tremont Street.

Practice your alphabet - it will assist the ushers with a smooth line-up process. [wtf?]

No alcoholic beverages are permitted at the line-up sites or Commencement [so be sure to get them into your system both before and after]

Your attention and cooperation will be most appreciated.

EVVYs Nominee List is up

The 27th annual EVVY award nominations are now up on their website. I’ll highlight a couple of the big ones (at least, as a film major):

Outstanding Intermediate Film
“Broken” Bryce Richards, Michael Grabow and Bradford Wilde
“Front Page” Kevin Mastman, Matthew McManus, Brian Vannucci, Tony Yacenda
“Dream on Cupid” Mike Grabow, Bradford Wilde and Bryce Richards

Outstanding Cinematography
“Billy Club” Elie Smolkin
“Front Page” Brian Vannucci
“2326 Pilot Episode” Elie Smolkin

Outstanding Cinematic Production
“No Wind, No Waves” Julian Higgins
“Animal Magic” Benjamin Phillippo, Katie Machaiek
“Front Page” Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus, Brian Vannucci, Tony Yacenda

Outstanding Multi-Cam Director
“Johnny Paula Directs GME 11/8/07″ Jonathan Paula
“GME: April 9, 2008″ Zachary Schiffman
“News @ 6″ William Gersh
“Speechless Ep. 5″ Eric Sagotsky

Outstanding Single Cam Director
“No Wind, No Waves” Julian Higgins
“Honor” Christina Densmore
“Looking Up” Ryan Cook

You can read the rest of the nominees on the EVVYs website (although, you guys could use a LITTLE bit of better separation techniques there!).

READER PARTICIPATION: Registration NIGHTMARES!

They’re on their way.

I thought instead of explaining the registration nightmares I’m having, I would open up the discussion to discuss how registration is going for you.

However, possibly even more importantly, if you could respond to this message with this information:

1. What grade you’re going to be in next semester (1st or 2nd semester as well!)
2. Whether or not you’re a transfer student
and
3. What day/time you have slotted for your registration
and, if you’d like
4. What you’ve experienced so far in the registration process

By knowing this, we can really see what’s going on with registration and its crazy order. I’m not sure about all of you, but I’m registering a full two days after some of my peers that will be seniors. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an upcoming junior who registers before me.

So, come on, participate!

FUCK. You’ve lost your Word document?

FUCK YOU, CLIPPY.

Our lovely staff member Megan called me last night, frantic that she had lost her Word document. We’ve all been in the same boat– often it’s the same situation: you’ve e-mailed yourself a copy of your document that you open and start editing. You save and then close the window, not immediately realizing that you haven’t downloaded the file to your computer. Shit.

First of all, let that be a warning to you: When you receive a document of ANY TYPE in your e-mail, save it to your computer first!

So, the first thing (as anybody might do) I did was search google for “saved word document open from email lost.” What came up seemed pretty helpful. It was “10 Ways to Find a Lost Word .doc” from the website HackCollege.

9. Open up C:\Documents and Settings\*USERNAME*\Local Settings\Temp
This is a hidden folder, so you’ll probably have to use Windows Explorer. Hit Start, then All Programs.
Go to Accessories, then Windows Explorer. Navigate to that folder, where *USERNAME* is whatever your computer calls you. Do you see your document in that folder?

Check out the full article here.

I’m sure this could help a few of you guys out more than once.

I’m sure the IT Helpdesk at Emerson would be happy that I told you this (when you do have a computer issue, go to them– they know their shit).

The E Spot

The E Spot. Em Magazine. Get it? Courtesy of espotmag.com.

Looks like we have a new magazine in town. This one’s called The E Spot, and seems to be (correct me if I’m wrong) an online magazine about sex and how it may apply to Emerson students. Why would I guess this? With categories on the main page such as “Relationshits,” “Sex Sex Sex,” and “Hot Shit,” it’s pretty much impossible to avoid. With a few risque photos and a few risque articles on sex and encounters, it’s something to check out if you’re looking for something a little… steamy.

Immediately it reminds me of Boink Magazine, Boston University’s sex-positive magazine. They’ve been pretty successful at getting some quality magazines printed out. However, they are quite a bit bigger than Emerson.

How this will coincide with Em Magazine’s nude photo shoot, I don’t know.

It seems like getting naked is all the rage for Emerson’s online material. Time to talk to the staff here? Only time will tell…

An Open Challenge To Josh Samataro

I’m not going to lie. I’m a big deal around these parts. Did you read my Securitas feature? It was down right incredible. People tell me I’m funny all the time. Hearing it bores me. You know what I’m also bored of? This no talent hack named Josh Samataro. Josh has made a career out of ripping me off. We both go to Emerson College. We both have late night talk radio shows. We both cried when The Patriots went 18-1. Now he follows me to The 1880? Enough is enough. I’m drawing the line in the sand.

Listen up Josh! I’m sick of your shenanigans and the fact that your last names has three A’s. You think you’re the new funny guy around these parts? Time to bring it. I’m issuing an open challenge to you. Try and beat me in any of the following:

-Lazer Tag
-Mini Hot Dog Eating Contest
-Go-kart race
- First Blood Match
- Home run derby
-Clue
- Evening Wear Fashion Show
- Hand Stand Contest

If Josh is man enough to face me in any of these events, The 1880 will provide full in-depth coverage. The ball is in your court Samataro.

Juicycampus.com is a Slut

Janet and Kate just told John that he was gay. He didn’t know yet.

I ran across a couple articles from pretty predominant news sources today about a website being used by seven colleges called juicycampus.com. Apparently, people get angry when their sexual escapades are anonymously posted on a website. The schools want to close the website down and some students are crying “first amendment” and blah blah blah.

Well since there was such a ruckus happening about this site I decided to visit it. I sat for almost three minutes while the relatively simple and unorganized site came up. It was a long time to wait for very little pay-off. It is mostly short rants about whose sorority/frat/cult is going to whoop someone else’s similarly boastful organization. That and accusations of people being gay. Now these are the two reasons this website will never work at Emerson. The sorori-frats aren’t rivals (and who would really care if they were) and outing someone is like accusing someone of being hipster at this school. It’s usually answered with a “yeah, duh!”

But if you want to kill a few minutes and don’t mind waiting for an oddly long time for it to load, check out the website, if only to wonder at how stupid and shallow other college students can be. As for all the gay bashing, methinks the site doth protest too much…

MSNBC article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23211511

Site itself: www.juicycampus.com