2008 Woodie Awards
View this section's front page!On the Discovery Channel's hit show "Dirty Jobs," host Mike Rowe travels the country and gets down and dirty by trying his hand at some of the most disgusting occupations people have. If Rowe were to visit Slippery Rock, the Storm Harbor Equestrian Center might just be on his list of stops.
When thinking of dirty jobs, custodial work may be one occupation that comes to mind. The endless cleaning of campus residence halls and buildings and the constant trash collecting that occurs are just two of the many things that need to be done in order to keep SRU's campus in order.
Half-eaten meals. Leftover food. End-of-the-meal concoctions. Those who have worked in a restaurant before know that these are common sights in the dish room and that cleaning them up can be quite the dirty job. For students who work in the dish rooms of the dining halls at SRU, the job can be just as messy.
Hey you! Yeah, you over there in the movie column! I was thinking, we've been next to each other every week since school started, and we never once went out to dinner and a movie. How about we switch it up a bit and make it a date? Ivan Moore: Since my usual theatergoing crowd is mostly guys, I'll have to give an emphatic "Yes!" I am thinking we should see "Awake.
Few things are as individual to people as their fingerprints. It is debatable whether even our most personal thoughts are original in the true sense of exclusiveness. It is not hard to imagine that someone, somewhere, sometime had a notion matching our own.
While winter break is just around the corner, finals week lingers in the air like a sour smell that strikes fear and stress into the hearts of many college students. So how can students better prepare themselves for the "worst week of the semester"? For freshmen, the finals experience can be demanding.
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