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April 2, 2012, was a normal day but for a few notable aspects: It was the Monday of a short week (ending in Good Friday) that came after the midterms, leaving the libraries emptier than they often are. It marked the conclusion of one intramural season and preceded the start of another. It was, by staff accounts, a remarkably quiet 24 hours for incoming messages in the President’s office. And it was the first school day of the sesquicentennial year.
Comings, goings, and related observances
Pedestrians on the Higgins Steps, noon to 1 p.m.: ascending 218; descending 397
Visitors to Undergraduate Admission 830
Infirmary outpatients 140; inpatients 4
Miles traveled by shuttle buses 983
Students studying abroad 534
Parking tickets issued 25
Workers at the Stokes Hall construction site 146
Students celebrating a birthday 38
Faculty and staff celebrating a birthday 16
Digital traffic
Visits to bc.edu 62,199
University pages viewed 614,966 (most viewed: the homepage, with 19,931 visits)
E-mails processed 1,100,000; of these, the number received by University President William P. Leahy, SJ, 132
Spam e-mails blocked 3,100,000
Boston College mentions on external Twitter accounts 22
Sustenance
Masses celebrated on campus 6
Baja chicken paninis consumed at Hillside 427
Chobani yogurts purchased campus wide 722
Meals purchased at Carney between noon and 1:00 p.m. 558; all day 8,209
Featured lunch entrée, faculty dining room: balsamic glazed chicken breast with almond peppers, warm quinoa salad with edamame and tarragon, confetti vegetable rice with fresh herbs, caramelized vegetable medley
Everyday Living
ID card swipes at the Flynn Recreation Complex 2,459
Lost IDs replaced by Student Services 87
Students wearing Boston College hoodies in Carney Dining Room at noon 18; Boston
College hats 5; T-shirts 4; sweatpants 3
Students holding campus jobs 3,559
Undergraduate classes held 775; labs and discussion sections 120
Graduate classes held 115
Sign-ins at the music practice studios: 95
Also practicing: women’s rowing, men’s track and field, women’s track
and field, women’s lacrosse, baseball, coed sailing, men’s ice hockey (in
preparation for the national semifinals)
Games played: intramural basketball 4; flag football 8
Books and their uses
Books, iPads, DVDs, and laptops checked out of libraries 1,128
Total books on loan 53,297
E-books viewed 23
New titles added 263 (e-books are processed on Fridays; 21 were added on March 30)
Groups using O’Neill Library’s nine study rooms 49
Students studying in Bapst Library at noon 28; at 11 p.m. 121
Students napping, O’Neill fourth floor at noon 0; at 11 p.m. 6
Public displays
Special exhibitions 12, in six campus galleries, displaying 145 paintings
and drawings and 333 sundry objects, including, in the McMullen Museum’s Rural Ireland: The Inside Story, a 19th-century, handcrafted, earthenware nesting egg “used to encourage hens to lay”; and an armchair hewn of hedgewood, the material left to the “least-skilled” Irish country carpenters.
AS ADVERTISED: A SAMPLING OF BANNERS ON THE QUAD AND DUSTBOWL
Homeless: an epidemic / We can do our part to help / Residence hall clothing drive 3-28–4-4 / Jenks leadership program
MLP presents Hollywood Premier Dance / March 30 at 9 / The Rat / sponsored by UGBC
Heightsmen Alumni Show: Saturday, March 31st Devlin 008 7 PM
BC Sharps Alumni Show / 3-31 7pm Gasson 305
Chocolate with Hillel: Chocolate
Seder to Celebrate Passover / Gabelli 2nd floor Tuesday 4-2 at 5
Questions about sexuality or gender identity? / Queer Peers / Tues 1–3 7–9 mon wed 7–8 Maloney 258
Senior Survey: respond by April 4th / Chance to win: One of 9 $100 cash prizes and… Trolley to commencement ball!
THE DAILY SPECIALS: EVENTS
How to Break into Print—The Changing Worlds of Academic and Non-Academic Publishing, pizza and discussion sponsored by the political science department and the Program for the Study of the Western Heritage
Protection Isn’t Counter-cyclic (Anymore), lecture by economist Andrew Rose (University of California, Berkeley), sponsored by the international economic policy and political economy seminar and the Institute for Liberal Arts
Moral Intuitionism, colloquium with psychologist Peter Ditto (University of California, Irvine), sponsored by the psychology department
The Psychology of Interviewing: What Your Body Language Is Telling Your Potential Employer! talk by Today Show contributor Janine Driver, sponsored by the Psi Chi honor society and the Career Center
U.N.I.T.Y. Dinner, celebrating the diversity of Boston College, sponsored by Undergraduate Government of Boston College
WZBC PLAYLIST, 11:00 A.M. TO NOON—FROM THE ‘LET’S GO COAST TO COAST’ SHOW, WITH THOMAS
THEESatisfaction: “Existinct”
Mirel Wagner: “No Death”
Boreas: “Remona”
Charlie Chamberlain: “Sarah Ogan
Gunning (Girl of Constant Sorrow)”
Wolf Parade: “Palm Road”
Mind Spiders: “You Are Dead”
Hollis Brown: “Gypsy Black Cat”
Tanlines: “Yes Way”
French Horn Rebellion: “Up All Night”
Clark: “Ghosted”
Mati Zundel: “No LLores Mas”
Moon Hooch: “#9”
SAMPLING OF HEIGHTS HEADLINES
BCAAUP writes to Leahy, BOT asking for investigation
BCPD plans to focus on bike safety in April
GLC hosts Candyland-themed annual gala
SAMPLING OF DEPTHS HEADLINES (APRIL 1 EDITION)
Jesuits caught literally trying to set world aflame
BC named number one door-holding school by ‘U.S. News’
J. Crew replaces Under Armour as the official sponsor of BC athletics