Last holiday season, my family entered the danger zone. My 9-year-old nephew, a video-game addict whose bottom must surely be fusing to the couch by now, was asked to feed the dogs. An hour went by, and the bowls went unfilled. Someone made a vague reference to a watchful Santa, and without pausing his game […]
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STUDENT SURVIVAL GUIDE ’08: College legends
BY JESSICA BAKEMAN The ghosts of SUNY Brockport In 1888, Edward B. Rowley fell through a wooden plank placed over a cistern containing almost eight feet of water in the Brockport Normal School — a building on the spot where Brockport’s Hartwell Hall now stands. The BrockportRepublic, the local newspaper at the time, reported that […]
