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So, while other departments set new enrolment records, in 2005/2006

... enrolment tumbled 10 per cent in math, computer, and information science, continuing a long-term trend. (Calgary Herald)

From the Calgary Sun, in an article entitled UPS shorts-wearing competition ends:

An 11-year bet between four Calgary UPS workers to see who could survive the longest wearing shorts on the job has been won

Some people must be crazy... particularly when the temperature may dip down to -50 Celcius (or even colder) after windchill

I mentioned a while back that somehow I had drifted to "stereotypical bachelor mode". Since then that's shifted a bit.

Why the change? Two primary reasons:

1. Cooking as procrastination. The semester is under way, and making food is a decent excuse to avoid doing things like the lesson prep for Monday that I really should be doing right now.
2. It's simply been too cold to make me want to venture outside unless necessary.

The weather has been getting warmer again, so #2 is no longer causing me to spend time in the kitchen. To hopefully minimize the amount of fast food and takeout consumed all the time, I've also taken a few more steps. I ordered a portable dishwasher. I've also braced myself to live with with that ever-so-terrifying word: leftovers.

Apparently this was all due to a threatening email that was received by some unknown individual:

At about 2:30 p.m. the university issued a campus-wide bulletin telling students not to leave the buildings they were in. At one point, UBC President Stephen Toope sent out an email to faculty and staff stating that people who did not have to come to campus should stay away. (CTV News)

They called in the SWAT team, bomb squad, dog teams, major crimes unit, a helicopter, and required police escorts for anyone moving in, out, or around the building.

I know that gunmen have in the past shot people on campus, most recent in mind being Virginia Tech, but do you think that this is a little overkill given the type of threat.

(CTV isn't reporting the specific trigger for the lockdown, but the Canadian Press says that it was an emailed threat).