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SSC Saves Budget, Cuts Food Services On Campus

Due to our need to fit in, and most likely extreme budget cuts, Salem State College has decided to cut food costs completely. Since New York is banning salt from restaurant and Massachusetts is New York’s annoying little brother/sister, Salem State College is taking the high road and has decided to cancel out food completely.

Tiger Woods to Play Exhibition Against Salem State Golf Team

After Tiger Woods went public with his admission of infidelity nearly a month ago, the world never thought possible Woods could do anything ever again nearly as shocking. They were wrong. Beginning next fall, Woods will be sending the entire Salem State golf team to the illustrious Torrey Pines golf spectacle in California for a two-week exhibition tournament.

Decoded: The Need for the Webdings Font and Secret Codes

So you are reading this. You are actually taking the time to read this. What is your life right now? Have you eaten lunch yet? If not I suggest you do, because you’re looking pale and you have BIG bags under your eyes. There’s this movie coming out with Steve Carrell, and if you’re anything like me you find him bangin’.

Salem and SSC Team Up to Raffle Seats on Ark

Salem, Massachusetts, the city of witches and the things that go bump in the night, has somehow eluded the five-day storm that has been pounding the state harder than a session with Ron Jeremy. How is it that school is cancelled, businesses are closed and houses are wrecked by the unexpected flooding that our own Salem State College and town has had a protected seal more secure than Glad wrap? Is it magic or the fact that Salem is the new Noah’s Ark, ready for the big flood? Sadly only needing two of everyone will cause mass rejection and there is only so much room when the world gets wiped out, except Salem, of course.

Major Football Star Caught Streaking Through O’Keefe Center; No Charges Filed

After receiving numerous phone complaints, Police were called to the O’Keefe Center during the evening on Thursday, April 1st to investigate what residents of both Lussier Street and Day Avenue reported as “naked people running across the field” (Alumni Field).

SSC Adds Curling Team

Salem State Athletics decided to start the college’s first curling team, using funds that had gone to the Track and Field program to fund the new team. The team will be co-ed and start in Winter 2010. In an official statement, Salem State Athletics said, “Curling is a sport that better suits the student body.

Best Seat on South Campus Removed

In a harsh and unpopular vote by school administrators, the popular bidet in the third floor of south campus’s Academic Building will be removed. The decision was made to combat the long lines that have developed to use the porcelain washroom fixture.

Man Fights Against Women’s Heritage Month

So you women think you deserve a Women’s Heritage Month? Really? It’s not enough that we gave you Mother’s Day, Women’s Equality Day or International Women’s Day? My God, you even have a Woman’s History Month. What more do you people need? That special guy not giving you enough attention or is it just that time of the month? I know you’re upset Hillary didn’t make it into office, but let’s be honest here.

New Dance of America: Influences of Jersey Shore

The United States, a place of freedom and the land of the brave, has a bald eagle representing us and the rose as our flower, but what about our country’s dance? From the twist to crunking, nothing has seemed to work, except now. President Obama has stated that the dance to represent America is and forever will be the fist pump.

Salem State Student Claims Housing Discrimination by College

Note: It is generally the Log's policy to quote sources only if they agree to go on the record. However, in this case we felt the issue was important enough to cover even though the subject declined to have her name be used. A transgendered undergraduate student at Salem State claims that school officials treated her unfairly and unequally when she applied for on-campus housing. Full story

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Gummo

Release Date: 1997 Director: Harmony Korine

If the misguided teenager standing in the middle of a desolate road in a tornado stricken Ohio town, resembling a nymphlike skateboarder wearing pink rabbit ears, is enough to make you stick around... Well, then, the film has already done its job. It is essentially this twisted sense of enjoyment the audience can relate to that makes Gummo a modern cult classic. Full story

Groups and Clubs Fair Kicked Off This Month

The spring Groups and Clubs Fair kicked off April 5 and filled up the ground floor of the Commons dinning hall with tables, posters and even a demonstration from the Chemistry Club. It is a bi-yearly event that spreads the word about the clubs and groups around Salem State College, giving the opportunity for students to get a jump start for next year. Full story

George Washington’s Take on Modern America

America is not what it was meant to be. It is not, despite misguided efforts at traditionalism and Biblical treatments of Constitutional sanctity, the country of its founders. America is barely a shell of the nation they envisioned. Politicians, pundits and network executives across the nation seek above all else the gratification of self and of party, with only a cursory glance cast at the betterment of the nation. Full story

In Its Twilight, SSC Track Finds Success

Salem State's final regular season meet was an emotional day, considering that the athletic department earlier this year, citing budget concerns and a lack of facilities, decided to cut the program entirely. "Yeah, we're a throwing team now," the slender Dennis Floyd, head coach of the Vikings since 2002, bemusedly commented on the current transfiguration of his women's squad. Full story

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Salem State Student Claims Housing Discrimination by College

Note: It is generally the Log's policy to quote sources only if they agree to go on the record. However, in this case we felt the issue was important enough to cover even though the subject declined to have her name be used. A transgendered undergraduate student at Salem State claims that school officials treated her unfairly and unequally when she applied for on-campus housing.

Students Upset at Fee Increase

When many of the attending students chose Salem State College, they did so because of it offered a four-year degree at a community college price. The price of attendance looks to be rising again though as student fees are expected to continue to rise.

SSC Prepares for Accreditation Review with NEASC Report

Members of the Salem State  community are gearing up for next spring’s accreditation review by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, NEASC, by preparing a self-assessment report that reviews all aspects of campus life at the college.