Jessica Kotek has back-to-back classes on the third floor, but is persistently late.

The problem? Her classes are on different campuses.

At 10:50 a.m., Kotek has exactly 30 minutes to leave the Quad, wait in a bus line, ride to St. Ben’s and walk across campus to the Main for her 11:20 class. Long bus lines have made punctuality nearly impossible.

“I was waiting in line at SJU for 15 minutes the day it was -40 degrees, and was appalled by how long the Link took to get to Sexton,” Kotek said in an e-mail.

The ‘v’ word won’t be spoken at St. Ben’s this month.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of “The Vagina Monologues,” but this is the first time in three years that the play won’t be read at St. Ben’s.

Organizing the annual reading of “Monologues” fell through, canceling the play that has been associated with controversy at the hundreds of college campuses across the U.S. and world that perform the play.

“I was really angry,” said senior Kate Glueckert, who tried to organize the play in August, but couldn’t find a tenured faculty member from the Gender and Women’s Studies department to sponsor the project. “I do believe if someone from the (department) …. could have monitored it, the administration would have approved it.”

For at least the past five years, the nursing department at St. Ben’s has been pushing for a health center on the campus.

At least two proposals were submitted, said Kathy Twohy, chair of the nursing department.

“It went nowhere,” she said.

The recent buzz among students and administrators is that a health center on the CSB campus may become a reality in the next few years.

Vice President of Student Development Mary Geller said steps are being taken to develop a plan for health services on campus.

If you haven’t noticed Johnnies with a little more fuzz on their faces for a beard-growing contest and lights turned off at Gorecki, then chances are you don’t know about the National Campus Energy Challenge.

This is the first year that more than 100 schools have competed in the energy challenge, a national, month-long competition to reduce energy consumption.

This is the second year CSB/SJU has participated. Campus Greens and Echo are co-sponsoring events all month.

It’s Valentine’s Day — a day which all of us single, hopeless romantics endure bitterly.

But I’m abandoning my resentment for singledom and trying out a new approach of optimism that I think can be applied to more than my incurable relationship status.

Like all seniors, I’m confident these last three months of college will be memorable. I’m hopeful I’ll get a job … despite going into an unstable, unprofitable industry. And I’m optimistic that you’ll want to read and be a part of The Record during our remaining seven issues.

The Record hasn’t had the best of luck so far this year, but this semester has the promise of being a good one.

Dear Editor,

As your readers all know by now, April 23 has been set aside to collectively celebrate the research, scholarship and creative work that we usually do solo. MaryAnn Baenninger and Br. Dietrich Reinhart, the two presidents, have asked us to take a break from our usual class responsibilities on this day and to come together as a whole community around some big ideas.

The “big idea” of the morning is Natalie Angier, the lead science writer for the New York Times and Pulitzer Prize winner. She has also recently published “Woman: An Intimate Geography” and “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”.