hottlinks #3: University edition with a side of quilting
I thought I would take a look through some university and college newspapers in New York state to get a look at what’s going on campuses these days. Next time, I’ll pick a different state or region to focus on.
(1) At SUNY Binghamton, female students are receiveing threatening phone calls from an unknown male voice.
“I’m gonna stick it in you so far that I will be riding you till it’s bleeding,” said the perverted, mysterious caller on the other end of the phone.
The article went on to report that students were urged to report any mysterious phone calls to the university police. There is also discussion of making phone numbers unavailable to the public.
Sound like some dude needs to get a life or at least call a 1900 number.
And one for the holidays:
In Salem Oregon, this Statesman article reveals how one resident Rachel Greco considers herself a “quilt historian.”
“Early in the history of this country,” she said, “women were not allowed to vote, form an opinion, own property or even have the rights to their children. The only thing they could own were things they made themselves, so quilts became a form of inheritance that could be passed down from generation to generation.”
Ms. Greco owns Grandma’s Attic Sewing Emporium where she holds meetings for her quilting group “Grandma’s $5 Quilt Club.” Member work on a different quilt block during the twice monthly meetings. past quilts have included themes like “Stories My Grandma Told Me” and”Northwest Women of Influence.” Several grandmothers, mothers and daughters attend the meetings together to pass down the fmaily tradition of quilting
Greco said she is dedicated to the “gospel of quilting.”