Campus Chronicles
An LSU bingo game gets shut down, Indiana students get an incentive to shop at Target, the Maryland newspaper has some interesting advertisements, and Wisconsin students learn the power of a keg party. It’s all in this week’s Campus Chronicles.
Related Bingo News:
- Hamline sketches its vision of a larger, greener campus
- Gambling common on campus, though not heavily hyped
- On-Campus Computing: Got Your Eye on a Back-to-School Machine? Better Start Shopping. And Don’t Skimp on the Memory.
- Televised poker game in which A’quadsA’ beat out 6s over 5s to claim $575,700
- TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle’s technology blog
- Marie D. Galyean: Annual Senior Faire offers bingo, health screenings on Saturday
- In the papers 17 June
- Uni embarks on a voyage of discovery
- Projects split pot of gambling funds
- New Designs for Buffalo Creek Casino - video included
- 4 women say they’re victims of man accused in SMU student’s drug death
- Upcoming events around campus
Interesting gambling information:
- 1946: Two famous landmarks open: Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo, and the Golden Nugget. Nevada levies its first gaming tax.
1949: Benny Binion sets up a high-stakes poker game at his Horseshoe casino between Nick "The Greek" Dandalos and Johnny Moss. It turns into an epic five-month poker match, laying the foundations for the World Series of Poker. - Bingo as we know it today is a form of lottery and is a direct descendant of Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia - the Italian National Lottery organized in 1530.
- The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.
- Dog racing (a race among greyhounds who chase after a mechanical rabbit) operates in 17 states. Jai-alai (a game similar to handball) is legal in just three: Connecticut, Florida, and Rhode Island.
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