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THE Daily Commuter Puzzle
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ACROSS 1 Busy as a __ 4 Pierces 9 Spread for fancy crackers 13 Cereal grains 15 Go around; encircle 16 “Yours, Mine & __”; Dennis Quaid movie 17 Part of the foot 18 European island nation 19 __ up; support 20 Most run-down 22 Woman 23 __ over; faint 24 __ nutshell; briefly 26 Occupation 29 Flogs 34 __ manual; PC booklet 35 Downward tilt 36 Top file drawer, perhaps 37 “Hot __”; role on “M*A*S*H” 38 Mates for does 39 Think deeply 40 Chum 41 Dried plum 42 Baker’s __; 13 43 “Don’t do __ I wouldn’t do” 45 Give in; cave 46 Wesson product 47 Come to shore 48 Hawaiian island 51 Try to sell in the newspaper classifieds 56 Uproar; to-do 57 Innocent 58 Tidy 60 Large party 61 Leg joints 62 Deep long cut 63 Muscle pain 64 Valuable item 65 Pig’s home
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DOWN 1 Crushing snake 2 All __; listening 3 Carve in glass
4 Serious; gloomy 5 Mountain path 6 Up to the task 7 Tiny pieces 8 Depots 9 Tall thin tree 10 Invisible emanation 11 __ on; trampled 12 Notice; see 14 Salt containers 21 Buzzing insects 25 Kook 26 Mea __; guilty one’s words 27 From China or Laos 28 Answer 29 Street talk 30 Actor Nicolas 31 Item in a first aid kit 32 Actor Buddy __ 33 Smell 35 Astonish 38 Nation once called Ceylon 39 Shaping
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41 __ Beta Kappa 42 Fender-bender memento 44 Hairpiece 45 Most unusual 47 Embankment 48 Like water __ duck’s back 49 Actor Baldwin
50 “Hell __ no fury like a woman scorned” 52 Blocker and Rather 53 Competes 54 Bodies of water 55 Vane direction 59 Your, biblically
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What chivalry was back in the day is now considered crossing the line. This video tells the same story of a man trying to woo a woman but from two perspectives. Watch the video at bit.ly/1ynAeu5.
History of the Day
Students in favor of non-smoking lounge, according to poll About 60 percent of students polled voted to ban smoking in Founders Memorial Library’s lower lounge, according to an April 13, 1987, Northern Star article. Of the 1,496 students polled, 938 voted to convert the lounge into a non-smoking area while 558 students wanted to keep the lounge half smoking and half non-smoking. The poll was conducted by the Student Association Academic Affairs Committee as a public opinion
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survey. The poll was conducted because the committee received student complaints about the smoke in the lounge. David Baum, then-SA Academic Affairs adviser, said he didn’t know if the poll was fair because the SA only did it for one day. Beth Titus, then-University Libraries associate professor, said if the lounge was to be changed it would be in fall 1987. Several factors were to be
considered, including student opinions and NIU’s International Facilities Environment Committee’s findings of the possibility of banning public smoking. One solution the SA suggested to solve the smoking problem was to have two lounges, one smoking and one non-smoking. This solution would also solve the seating problem because the lounge was sometimes crowded with groups meeting to work on projects.
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