Drew told me to:
From a book called Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson:
Godfrey: “Tortured?”
That didn’t quite work out like I had hoped, but it is still interesting nonetheless.
It’s good to know that U of M students aren’t the only people to riot. Like take for example UConn students after their national championship victory of GA Tech.
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Next time they should be more careful to not pose for the camera, as in the case with students from Northeastern University.
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What a season it has been. UConn played an excellent game and definitely deserved to win. It’s sad for me to see the season come to an end. Sorry to the band members stuck in New Orleans… Gary, I guess you have something to be happy about.
I liked the photo that Gophersports.com put up:
In case you were wondering, the picture that would have been on the website if they won was
Bye Lindsay Whalen. You’ll certainly be missed. Hopefully the team can pickup where they left off this year with another fantastic season next year.
Well, it’s Joe’s birthday (on the 7th I think), so a bunch of us on the 6th floor decided to pitch in and buy him a t-shirt so he can never forget how much he likes Chappelle’s Show.
As I’m sure you’ve heard a million times already, the Lady Gopher’s Basketball Team is headed to the Final Four. I won’t be going in the band (since I’m not in WAB). The game is in New Orleans, and they are staying at a $200/night hotel, so it should be a pretty sweet time.
The big game is Sunday, I hope y’all watch. They are showing the game at William’s Arena (for free) if you are interested. It sounds like they might get a band together and play during the commercials and such.
Question: What’s the best April Fools prank that’s been pulled on you?
The one that tops my list is one that some of the girls on my floor pulled on my this year.
To setup some background, about a week ago 4 of us guys were bored sometime after dark and decided to go exploring. We got onto the roof of Ferguson Hall (easy), and then tried the Social Sciences building without any luck (damn the locked doors).
Getting bored, we headed out onto the bridge at which point we boosted Dave up so he could pull himself onto the top of the bridge. He was greeted with the “Cease and Desist” sign on top of the bridge and decided it was a bad idea to go further (the sign is there to keep people from stealing the flags that line the top of the bridge).
So we headed over to the East bank to try to get on some of the roofs of the buildings in Northrop Mall. From there we got on the roofs of Tate (out a window), Murphy (out of a scary roof hatch), and Kolthoff/Smith (out of an unlocked door).
By far the Kolthoff/Smith roof was the most exciting (lots of places to go, including walking all the way around Smith on a quasi-narrow ledge).
Anyway, this leads to the point of the best prank ever. Today in my mail, I received a letter from UMPD:
March 28, 2004
Bradley Froehle:
On the night of Wednesday, March 24, UMPD security cameras captured your image trespassing in two University buildings: Smith Hall and Kolthoff Hall. This is against University policy, as detailed in Article IV, Section 3.4 of the University Code of Conduct.
In light of this violation, your presence is requested at the University Safety and Transportation Building, located at 511 Washington Ave SE. We ask you to please contact Nancy Simms at (612) 481-2365 within twenty-four hors to arrance a preliminary hearing before Judge William Ford. Failure to respond within the designated time period will result in further legal action. We hope to resolve this issue in a timely manner.
Thank you for your cooperation.
[signature of Chuck Miner]
Lieutenant Chuck Miner
CID Division Manager
(612) 379-8890
Being the gullible individual that I am, I bought it for a little while.. enough to actually call the telephone number (which turns out to be April’s cellphone). Coincidentally, the phone number at the bottom is a pizza place, although I didn’t end up calling that one.
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I’m headed to Norfolk, VA this weekend to see the Gopher Girls Basketball win the next two games.
Ooh, it’ll be fun!
Although at the moment it looks like I might have to take one of my midterms at 7am on Friday. Here’s to hoping that instead the departure time is later and I can take it at noon like everybody else in my class.
Well, it has become obvious that I picked the wrong pepband to be in, as the Women’s BBall team just beat the 2 seed Kansas State to advance to the Sweet Sixteen. As I recall, all of the women’s events (that have pepbands—volleyball, hockey, basketball) have now seen post-season play. Contrast this to the men’s basketball team, with our 10th in the Big Ten ranking.
Maybe it’s a good thing I did BB Band because I’d be too busy with trips with all of the WAB events.
The Gopher’s just beat the Bulldogs to head to the WCHA Championship Game against UND. Impressive since UMD swept the Gophers in both series this year.
And it’ll give me something to do tomorrow night—the game’s on at 7pm.
Update: The Gophers Beat UND! Wahoo! I’m really sad that I didn’t get to watch the game—I was at work because somebody called in sick. However, I did tape it, so I’ll hopefully get to watch it in the near future. I hear it was a really great game of hockey.
As many of you know, the U of M’s spring break is this week. I thought I’d be able to take some time off and relax, but so far it has been pretty hectic with work. I was originally only scheduled for both Sunday’s of Spring Break, but I’ve ended up working on Tuesday-Friday. At least I’ve been working at some different stores so it’s not so boring.
The Gopher Basketball Banquet was on Monday of this week. We got to the hotel (it was at the Hilton in downtown) and played for a while (30-60 minutes?). Then sat down and ate dinner. The meal was really good (I haven’t had steak in ages!) and the company was even better—being able to talk to band people that I hadn’t seen in a little while.
Then we had to wait through all of the talks and speeches. Monson got up and talked a bit about each player and then let the Seniors say whatever they wanted. On the whole it took a quite a while and was mostly boring since I don’t know any of the players on a personal level. There were certain interesting parts because I guess the Basketball Player’s have a sense of humor as well. There were the jokes about people’s sexuality (although in a nice fashion, especially since one of the one of the gay-joke targets is now engaged). There was talk of “putting three people in a box and seeing who would come out”… a sort of who’s the best competition mind game. I think it would have been a lot funnier if I knew about the inside jokes ahead of time.
Michael Bauer spoke last (since he was the “best” senior). He got very emotional, especially when talking about how he almost lost his father and his brother during his college career. It was very touching (and honestly it was close to bringing tears to my eyes). Monson must have been apprehensive about letting him talk after the “incident” in Indianapolis at the Pep Fest in which Micheal quoted his brother as saying, “Beat the F— out of Wisconsin.”
The evening concluded with a rendition of the rouser, likely the last time I will play it this school year! Only 5 more months until Spat Camp!
Brad Froehle 