Boiler Forums

I made a discussion board a long time ago and there have been only a few posts on there that weren't mine- I cleared the thing out and put a few new posts on there: it is Boiler Forums and there is a link over to the right. I'm not really sure if there is a need for another message board, but it's here anyway... I like the ProBoards format better than any others that I ahve seen- what do you think?? Is there a need for it? Is it a waste of time?

PSA: Purdue Online

I know that probably a lot of the people that read this have come here from Purdue Online but I am amazed at how many people don't know about Purdue Online. I always hear people talking about needing to buy something, needing to sell something, needing to find a new roommate, needing to find someone to sublease, needing to find a car, needing to sell a car, or needing to have some questions answered. I always tell them to check out Purdue Online because A- there are free classifieds and B- there are people (at least one in particular that I can think of) that can answer about any Purdue related question you may have. So, if you haven't been to Purdue Online- go there now and bookmark it and then go back often.

There is one thing I always wonder, though, about Purdue Online. It says For Students, By Students but it seems there are far too many annoying former Purdue students on there causing problems for everyone. Why are they on there? They were students, they aren't students any more. I can maybe understand if they are still in Lafayette/West Lafayette but not if they aren't... which reminds me- you can put people on ignore so when your perfectly innocent thread gets bombed by those political freaks, you can put them on ignore and voila... you never have to see their idiotic comments again. It is, as someone once said, a good thing.

More Bloggers needed

OK, I was hoping to add at least four or five more bloggers to the list but haven't had the time to really look for people during the past semester. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know at bloggingpurdue@yahoo.com - send a link to their current blog and an e-mail address.

We've been averaging 400 unique visitors/month but it has slowed a little over the past month and a half- repeat visits are also down but it looks like there are about 100 people or so who regularly check in. I'm not sure how many people are hitting us up through news readers. There is a definite correlation between number of posts per week and number of visitors.

I've heard some other bloggers comment how this past semester was a bitch and there was no time for blogging and I would have to say that was the case for me. I don't know how many times I took pictures over the past semester and then didn't even get them off my phone or camera until a day or two or three or four later?

Josette asked me to post this here

from blogalice.com

as the subject indicates, the purdue hunger strike is in its 16th day:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ahanna/hs/. one of my stduents has been keeping me updated. president jischke and purdue's administration are continuing to ignore the students. evidently, the students are not even allowed in jischke's office to deliver letters of support for the strike, and there is now a police officer manning the office, evidently guarding jischke and his $373,050 salary.

their demands:

(1) Workers in these factories have the right to form a democratic union if they so desire, or already have such a representative body. (2) Workers in these factories have the right to bargain toward a living wage. (3) The Purdue Code of Conduct (which has already been approved) is honored and followed in these factories. here's the petition if you're interested in supporting the group: http://www.petitiononline.com/nosweat/petition.html

Best of Tippecanoe Craigslist - 12/03/06

The newest installment of Best of Tippecanoe Craigslist

Couple 4 women/couples - mw4mw - 43

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