TV or Not TV
Students want their MTV after all.
Just six months after rejecting a proposal to install cable television in residence hall rooms, students who responded to a recent Stu-A survey voted overwhelmingly in favor of cable. According to The Colby Echo, 1,055 students responded to the survey. Seven hundred thirty students voted in favor of cable in rooms and 325 opposed it.
In the referendum conducted last spring, students said they were against cable TV in their rooms because they feared it would weaken the intellectual and social atmosphere on the campus.

Border Guards and Burritos
If the border guards at Canadian-U.S. crossing points didn't know about Colby before, they do now. Dozens of students participating in a scavenger hunt sponsored by Student Association last November traveled to various border stations in Maine hoping to have their pictures taken with a Canadian officer. When they arrived, they found that security procedures prohibited the officers from having their photos taken with civilians, so the students improvised, snapping photos with customs employees working inside the checkpoint buildings to convince hunt organizers that they had actually made the trip. After all, it was worth 500 points.
The border guard encounters were among several amusing stories related to items sought during the hunt, which attracted 18 teams competing for an all-expenses paid weekend at Sugarloaf/USA.
Some of the more interesting items on the scavenger list included:

• an official Bowdoin hockey jersey (worth 250 points; 500 if the judge was allowed to keep it);
• the answer to the question "What does the `R' in William R. Cotter stand for?" (we aren't telling);
• a menu from the Road Kill Cafe (100 points);
• a Taco Bell burrito (more about that later);
• a photocopy of Associate Dean of Students Mark Serdjenian '73's College yearbook picture (100 points).