Bruins…Ten Games Left

Okay so it has been way too long since I last posted but not much has happened, right?  Oh right, just that minor situation with the Montreal police investigating Chara.  Since that incident has been handled by the NHL, there is not much for me to say.  Do I think the hit was dirty?  By no means.  Do I think Chara should have been suspended?  If he had, I wouldn’t complain about it, either Montreal fans would complain about (and they are).  So that’s that.  We’ll see what happens when the Bruins take on the Canadiens tomorrow…should be interesting.

Here we are…ten games lefts in the season.  Where has this season gone?  It seems just like yesterday it  was October and the season just started.  I guess time flies when you’re having fun right?  But are we having fun Bruins fans?  I must say that I probably come off as being pessimistic towards the Bruins in the blog but I always have in my Boston Bruins.  I may say things need to be better and what not but it will take A LOT for me to lose faith in the Bruins.  Sometimes, I just want things to be the best they can be in order for the Bruins to succeed in the playoffs.

Right now, Boston is sitting in third place in the eastern conference and is all but guaranteed a playoff spot.  The new Bruins (Kaberle, Peverley, and Kelly) have found this place on this team and I can’t say I’m upset anymore with the trades the Bruins made at the deadline.  Peverley has been the most surprising to me.  He is solid on the penalty kill and the line of Peverley-Kelly-Seguin has looked good as of late.  Peverley’s  shorthanded goal against the Columbus Blue Jackets was a thing of beauty.  Peverley has definitely added the most to this Boston team with Kelly a little behind him.  However, I am still not satisfied with Kaberle.  He just has not brought enough to team to make a difference.  I really hope Shane Hnidy gets some playing time in place Kaberle.  Hnidy is guaranteed to make smart plays, hit everything he can, and be the Sheriff on the blue line and the bench.

But  once again, I do not make the decisions but I really hope the Sheriff gets some ice time down the stretch.  It’s not going to hurt the team at so why not put him out there?

This Boston team seems like the ones of the past few years minus last year.  Last year, we were on top and then blew it against the Flyers in the second round of the playoffs.  This year is those years when the team has its up and downs but you have very moments when you say ‘that’s the team I have been waiting to see.’  So what do I see the Bruins doing in the playoffs this year?  I don’t feel like predicting that.  Let’s just wait and see…

Kristin Carbone
Pierce Arrow Blogger

A New Freshman Blogger

Hey all! So my name is Rae Lewiston, and I am a freshman at a small university in New Hampshire. I am majoring in creative writing and minoring in environmental science. Quite the strange combination, I know!

So I’m glad you’ve decided to read my blog, but I must warn you: I am entirely new to this whole scene, so bear with me as I learn the ropes and get used to blogging.

I don’t have any particular direction I am heading towards; I guess I’ll just be posting whatever I feel like every other week. It could be funny stories, embarrassing things that happened to me, any new obsessions I pick up (such as movies, books, bands, artists, etc…), or it could just be something completely random.

So, I look forward to sharing my life with you, and I hope you’re excited to keep reading my blog!

Rachel Lofgren
Pierce Arrow Blogger

How To Recycle at Franklin Pierce University

Last Friday October 29^th 2010 the Eco Club held a Fall Forum. One of the main events at the Forum was the Stop Contamination Campaign. This refers to the recycling on Franklin Pierce Campus. This is very important because it turns out that they have stopped picking up our recycling dumpsters as recyclables picking them up instead as trash!! Commingle recycling dumpsters seem like a good idea but not if people aren’t following the instructions!

So I want to help set it straight so that we can get recycling back on our campus!

Tip One: You can only recycle number 1 and 2 plastics. You can find the number on the bottom of most plastic bottles, milk and juice jugs ect. It is usually in the center of the 3 arrows that create a triangle. Make sure the CAPS are OFF!

Tip Two: Don’t throw your plastic bag in there! I know it’s hard because you want to make a nice easy trip to the recycling, but try and use a bin with no plastic bag inside it because the bag can’t be recycled.

Tip Three: There is a cardboard recycle bin outside the cafeteria, I know its hard for those of you who live in LV to truck all your cardboard up to campus, but look at it this way: you go up to campus for class everyday (most of you take the shuttle or drive) all you have to do is bring it up once a week.

Please try your best to recycle properly!!! It truly is important and it makes a big impact on the Earth!

Rebakka Milles
Pierce Arrow Blogger

That Unidentified Thing Called Identity…

Tom Petty once said-or rather sang- “You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You’ll never remember class time, but you’ll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don’t have. Drink ’til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.” Its been a full two months since getting here and I have to say Mr. Tom Petty makes one hell of a point (not mention he’s generally fantastic). Straying for a bit since I last wrote Alumni weekend has come and gone and this past weekend was Halloween-personally my favorite day of the year. Both weekends were interesting in their own ways. During Alumni Weekend I met a few-fairly recent grads, and some older ones…and as I listened to their stories they went on and on about the parties they remember the least, the professors they loved the most and friends they shared it all with. I remember thinking ‘I can’t wait to graduate and come back and have all these stories to share.’ But, I also thought about how when I was in high school I was sort of afraid of the kids who were in college and came to visit…they looked tired stressed and nowhere near happy, and I never wanted to feel the way I thought they did, I didn’t want to feel old because of a social rite of passage, but as I listened to these Alums, never once did one say “I was so stressed out I wanted to yank all my hair out,” and I realized that was beauty of college, running an entire weekend off two hours of sleep not remembering any of it and asking God how you even made it to your 8am….is what made the experience. As Halloween buzz kicked in I completely forgot about Alumni weekend until I was sitting in my 10am this morning thinking “oh my god, how is it even physically possible I made it here?” The words of former students came back and at that moment I had never been happier. I felt like a college kid, I was exhausted out of my mind, I had woken up at 9:50am by a stroke of luck and grabbed the first thing that smelt okay, and was trying my best to not doze off……

As far as Halloween Weekend goes, I’m unwilling to spill the details via blog, but I will say that before going to bed at 5am Monday morning (to be in class by 10….ungodly), I remember thinking “I get it, this is why it’s called the best years,” through the haze and the hot mess of costumes, packed dorms and living rooms that smell like urine I had discovered the single most amazing thing I could ever discover in life: the beauty in imperfection. Since I was a girl everything always had to be perfect. Grades, posture, vocabulary, etc…and mistakes weren’t very welcoming. Over the last two weeks I’ve come to find out that nobody is perfect, but even more so its okay not to be perfect. At first I thought I couldn’t accept it but as I sit here at 2:31a.m hearing the sounds of Shakedown from my window reflecting on my weekend I find that because of mistakes, my time here has the been the best of my life. It’s these mistakes, these imperfections that have given me the most memorable, fantastic absolutely ridiculous nights of my life here. And because of them and how I’ve learned to embrace them it helps me smile a little brighter every day. It feels good to not have to beat myself up every time something goes awry. Its college, and I’m still a child, it’s the prime time for “mistakes,” and quirks. I guess my realization of all this is a little juvenile, and it could be said I should have accepted this a long time ago, but that’d take the fun out of finding out right now. College I’m learning, is “where the wild things are.” And I’m loving every second of it.

 

Jessica Addis
Pierce Arrow Blogger

A new kind of experience…

So, I’ve finally experienced my first cold of freshman year. It was horrible; I swear these dorms are like a breeding ground for germs. I tried my hardest to prevent it, hand sanitizer all the time, vitamins and such, but I could not avoid the dreaded freshman cold. After being a hermit in my dorm for the last 3 days recovering, I am finally feeling much better! Now, if only this weather would brighten up then everything would be great!

Halloween is right around the corner which is fantastic! I love Halloween, and no, not because I live the city over from lovely Salem, MA. I just love the vibe and mood of the holiday… brings back so many memories! Unfortunately, I will not be experiencing a Frankie P Halloween this year, as I will be home for my best friend’s birthday. I’ll have to listen to the stories to see how it went, from what I’ve heard; Halloween weekend around here can get pretty crazy!

Until next time, everyone stay safe and have a wicked Halloween!

Elizabeth Walsh
Pierce Arrow Blogger

Simple Living

Hey Everyone!

This week I want to write about an experience that really got to me. The other day as a class we went on a field trip to a house and a farm that was completely off the grid. For those unsure of the term, it means that the house and farm did not use electricity from the electric plant that runs lines to many of your homes and to this campus. The man who owned the farm makes his own electricity using solar panels. He runs other things on natural gas. He tries his best to live off his land, milking cows and raising other livestock for his needs. This was really awesome to see because when I was a little girl I always wanted to live like Laura Ingles in Little House on the Prairie. We have a cabin near the Adirondacks in my home in NY and I have always loved it there, and vowed to live a similarly to that of our cabin lifestyle. As I got older the idea of living simply still was on my mind, but it seemed more of a dream then a reality. Growing up with a wondrous cabin in the woods and living among the Amish (who also don’t use electricity and life completely off their land) was awesome but I still didn’t see a way that I could live my dream without a lot of sacrifices. Because of this experience I saw how a husband and wife, both teachers, were able to live simply and yet still have the technological luxuries their job required. It made me see once again that my dream could become a reality once more.

Rebakka Milles,
Pierce Arrow Blogger

We’re All Falling For Fall

“I taste blood every time I think of summer if that’s true, I’m in for quite a treat.‘cos I’m begging  for the sun in a mid-Missouri winter, waiting desperately to get out of town.” -Ludo

Well it’s Fall Break and most people have left campus for quick visits back home. I can’t blame them. Though I love college, the campus, the people, and the atmosphere, a break would be welcomed very warmly. I still get homesick every now and then in the smallest ways. For example, my blanket nickname of ‘Hey, Texas,” which once used to frustrate me I now answer with an immense amount of pride. In some ways I feel like the school year has hit full swing. Classes are shelling out work, activities to jump to, and friends to entertain, and to be quite honest-I kind of like it. Even though campus has been practically deserted the last few days I kind of love it. I’m convinced I’ve become infatuated with watching the sun set on the dock (there’s some romanticists ideas there, I guess).

As far as class work goes *sigh* I’m starting to learn how much self discipline I lack that I wasn’t even aware of (for example, though I’m writing this, I’m currently logged into to Facebook, and very entertained with Israel ‘IZ’ Kamakawiwo’ole’s cover of “Over the Rainbow” ). Though it may be petty, finding motivation gets difficult at times, my College Writing II class is currently slaughtering me, at the end of the day I’m aware its entirely my fault, I guess I haven’t found that balance yet. Though it may be lame, the idea of college, the lure of 2,000 other students so close all the time, so interesting, is still very invigorating to me, and the idea that there’s ALWAYS something to do kind of beats me over the head. I figure if my mom could see me now and the fact that my dorm is a mess, you can barely see the work space of my desk and that I went without a shower for two days, she’d go old school southern on me sooooo fast!

One thing I’ve found is that it feels awesome when seniors in high school ask me what college is like and I get to have a hand in telling them what they might expect, what its like etc though I haven’t been here too long it kind of takes me back to last year, remembering the buzzing talk of college apps and future majors. Its weird the things we said we’d never do in college in high school, the habits we promised ourselves we wouldn’t develop and the even bigger best friend promise of “I’ll call you everyday..” then the year kicks off, and we’ve found ourselves deciding whether or not to do what we said we wouldn’t, catching ourselves in those cliché habits we were warned about and somehow still slipped into, and realizing our besties back home hasn’t received a call in a days, or the mother for that matter.

For now, I’m hacking out the Fall Break-have a great playlist to accompany me, and lots of work to do. Sorry for the rant lol! Have a great week.

 

Jessica Addis
Pierce Arrow Blogger

 

 

Getting Involved

The first thing I heard about this school exactly a month ago was to be involved and do as much as you can. If no one hasn’t noticed yet, Rindge in basically in the middle of nowhere besides Keene being 30 minutes away. I took that advice, and did as much as I could without being overwhelmed my first year here. I bring this up because I have been so busy that I almost forgot to do this blog today. With school, going to the bubble, writing for the Pierce Arrow, starting flag football, and trying to keep a social life alive, there is so much going on. It’s a good balance and it lets me stay busy when there’s nothing to do. I really like this because there wasn’t that much for me to do at my high school besides playing football. With exactly a month gone by I am really enjoying this school and the certain atmosphere that comes with it. Until next time, take it easy.

Mike Husson
Pierce Arrow Blogger

Glee is BACK!

So, last Wednesday was the premiere of Season 2 of GLEE! I was very excited because I am a Gleek, and it is one of my favorite shows. I think it has something to do with my love of music and. I truthfully was a little nervous while I was waiting for it to come on…wondering if it would be good, or live up to last season’s phenomenal performances and just over-all quality of the show. Some might say it’s crap, but I think it’s just really good entertainment. You have to have a tolerance for random out-bursts of singing of course, like musicals, so if you don’t like that sort of thing Glee probably isn’t for you.

But anyways onto the episode…They started off with an overview of all of the characters…except for Miss Pillsbury…where was she? Arty is no longer going out with Tina, which is awful, but instead she is going out with the other Asian boy. I was scared also because they said something about doing no more show-tunes, so I was not expecting to hear two of my favorite songs from musicals. They started with Empire State of Mind, probably because their competition is going to be in New York. Then, they covered Telephone. Rachel and the new girl, who was played by Filipino music star Charice, and it was amazingly epic. Rachel was trying to get people to audition for Glee club but along the way she found this amazing singer, so of course she would try everything in her power to prevent her from getting in the glee club. The new boy along with the boys of the club sang Billionaire. I must say good job with having popular songs! (Although the originals are still better) Then, the new girl sang Listen from Dream Girls, which was amazing. Rachel and Finn were almost about to break up, but of course they cannot because they are meant for each other. Rachel ended the episode with What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line, which is one of my favorite songs. So overall I would have to say the first episode was pretty good.

This Wednesday was the Britney Spears episode. I still do not know what to think about it. Brittany, the blonde cheerleader who only dances, actually sang in this episode. Of course it was only in her dreams that she was “better than Britney Spears herself” but she was really good. She is also an amazing dancer and that was showcased too. It was a very weird episode though, just a lot of music video – type thing breaks. I wasn’t too fond of that.

Miss Pillsbury (Emma) was in this episode along with her long awaited dentist boy friend to appear, who was played by John Stamos. It was a lot of “oh you belong with me” crap from Will’s part, but he is still in love with Emma, I guess he has every right to be jealous and angry at her new boy friend. Emma seemed torn, but obviously she would be. There was also a second where Will’s ex-wife appeared, and she is still psychotic. And of course there cannot be an episode without Rachel doing something wrong or trying to be someone she is not.

Along with Britney Spears songs, Rachel sang The Only Exception by Paramore, which I loved. But, I still like Hayley Williams’ voice singing it better. The end was very emotional though, between Rachel and Finn and Will just crying on the side.

Much more happened in both episodes but I cannot give you every single detail. So you’ll just have to watch it for yourselves.

I’m still excited about this season and I bet it will progressively get better, so check it out.

Amelia Walters
Pierce Arrow Blogger

What are you doing to promote sustainability on campus?!

What are YOU doing to promote Sustainability on Campus???

A LOT!!!!

Our AWESOME CAs are doing a fantastic job of spreading the word! Keep your eyes out for activities like:

• Making t-shirt out of bags
• Environmental Jeopardy
• Trading in old light bulbs for energy efficient bulbs
• Recycled material sculpture building
• Recycling contest for New Hampshire Hall
• Recycling contest for Mt. Washington Hall
• Rock decorating to utilize as door props

Some events are still being worked out by the Community Assistants.  The events that are in the currently in the works are:

• Making plant pots out of cups and potentially using plastic soda rings and shopping bags to create new products
• A recycling contest between the five suites on the third floor of Cheshire Hall.
• Lakeview clean-up and a discussion of “green” cleaning supplies.
• Tie-Dying clothing with a discussion about water conservation

It doesn’t stop there………

The Community Service Office Staff collected 55 lbs of aluminum can tabs and donated them to The Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Springfild, MA in May 2010.

Amazing work everyone!  Please contact me, Michelle Comeau, x4255 to share what YOU have been doing to promote FPU’s Sustainability, or if you would like to participate in any of these fantastic events!!!

Michelle Comeau
Pierce Arrow Blogger