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BATES RATES Mar. 2nd, 2010

Snoop Dogg concert Up and up Snoop Dogg: 60K. Advice on how to start our day? Priceless.   Annual WRBC Trivia Night Up and down Snoop probably got a little more action than Trivia Night's radio show hosts.   Winter Olympics Up The three countries participating did just great.

BATES RATES Nov. 10, 2009

The first snow of the season... It’s pretty until it sticks to the ground. Up... Registration opens It's always such an intricate process to schedule 4-day weeks. Up...and down. Football team beats Bowdoin Watch out, Continentals, the Bobcats are in for a comeback! Up.

BATES RATES Nov. 3rd, 2009

Trick or drink: Orloff sales go up 100%. ...Up   Halloween Dance Dances are way more exciting when you can't see faces. And scarier, too. ...Up and down   Daylight Savings Time Ends Too bad "daylight" in November is purely hypothetical.

BATES RATES Oct. 13th, 2009

  H1N1 Strikes at Bates Down… Do you have to be sick to get one of those "isolation packs"?   Class on Columbus Day Up and down… We show our contempt for imperialism by complaining about our one Monday class.   Midterms next week Down… Sorry Professor, I just happened to come down with swine flu.

BATES RATES Oct. 6, 2009

  Parents and Family Weekend: Up and Down   Hey Mom and Dad! Ignore the sixty beer cans in my recycling bin.   Harvest Dinner Down   Nothing says "Welcome to Bates" like macaroni and cheese pizza.   A Capella Show Up and Up   Thanks to the groups for distracting our parents for an hour.

BATES RATES Sep. 22, 2009

New Bates website Down and Up... When I finally find what I am looking for, it looks really good. Matt and Kim concert Up I never knew you could have a mosh pit to "Daylight." No more printing from the Ladd Library kiosks Down... Were they ever used for anything but printing anyway? Looks like the Maine winter came a little early to Commons.

BATES RATES Mar. 24, 2009

Students campaign to Take Back the Tap Down.... Confused students try to drill holes in kegs   Snow on March 22nd  Down... WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH, OKAY?   Straight month of classes Down... Repayment: May will be quite the opposite.   Dispatch v.

BATES RATES Mar. 17, 2009

Gala approaching Up and Up... Boogie time.     Housing lottery Down... Let’s not even talk about it...     Alumni Walk turning into Alumni Swim Up... Come on, short term... we’re ready for you.     The Nancies played Purim Up and Up.

Digitz

Digitz Mar. 2nd, 2010

3 Number of times the SeaWorld orca whale that killed trainer Dawn Brancheau has been involved in a human death. Have we gotten the hint yet? 10 Number of hours a handcuffed probationer was accidentally left in a courthouse after court officials left for a long weekend.

Digitz Feb. 9 2010

4 Number of people killed by sharks last year. 791 Number of people killed by defective toasters last year. 8 million Pounds of guacamole consumed nationally on Super Bowl Sunday. 6 Percent of people who call in sick to work the Monday after Super Bowl Sunday.

Digitz Nov. 10, 2009

  500,000 The number of votes for advertising executive Don Draper, lead character of TV show “Mad Men”, on AskMen.com for Most Influential Man of 2009, beating out many other men who actually do exist.   300,000 Amount of money in dollars going toward an aerial search by National Security Technologies for radioactive rabbit poop in Hanford, California.

Digitz Oct. 6th, 2009

78 The age of a bank teller who told a would-be robber to get out of the bank.At her reprimand, the man fled. "He's probably not going to brag about this to any of his friends," said the local police captain. 21 The age of a woman who was carded when she attempted to buy teaspoons in a British store.

Digitz Sep. 22, 2009

107 The age of a woman who is divorcing her 37 year-old husband because he is undergoing drug rehabilitation and she is afraid that he will try to find a younger woman when he completes the program. 6 The number of marijuana plants confiscated in a drug raid of an outdoor growing facility in Halifax, CA.

Digitz Mar. 31, 2009

Digitz 2 The number of atom bomb attacks survived by 93-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He first visited Hiroshima on the day of the bombing, August 6th, 1945 for a business trip and returned to Nagaski in time for the second bombing on August 9th. 26,000,000 The amount, in dollars, won by an immigrant of El Salvador from a lottery ticket after he ignored his friends’ advice not to buy one on Friday the 13th.

Digitz Mar. 24, 2009

Digitz 2 The number of people trampled to death as a crowd rushed into a stadium to see the Pope speak. 1 The number of robbers who robbed a jewelry store in Wisconsin. 2 The number of robbers who robbed a robber as he left a jewelry store in Wisconsin.

Digitz Mar. 17, 2009

200,000 The number of Euros that Berlin has spent on an “anti-grumpiness” campaign, which followed research showing that most outsiders think Berlin is a “gruff and ill-tempered place.” 60 The age of a dead body delivered to a pet store.