{"id":58,"date":"2010-09-10T16:25:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T20:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=58"},"modified":"2010-09-10T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T20:26:34","slug":"ice-cream-and-welcome-at-the-annual-cc105-fruit-drop-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/09\/10\/ice-cream-and-welcome-at-the-annual-cc105-fruit-drop-this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice cream and welcome, at the annual CC105 Fruit Drop this Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyfreepress.com\/news\/campus-news-briefs-1.931861\">department tradition<\/a>, the natural sciences faculty of <a href=\"http:\/\/blackboard.bu.edu\/bin\/common\/course.pl?course_id=_3014_1\">CC105<\/a> will once again be releasing various types of fruit from a high fire escape behind CAS, in a recreation of Gaileo\u2019s famous though apocryphal demonstration of the equal action of gravity on objects of differing weight. CC105 students are required to attend; but all members of the Core community \u2013 faculty, staff, and students \u2013 are invited to join the fun, this Sunday, September 12th, in the CAS rear parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, this annual fruit drop has become a social gathering where veterans of the Core can welcome the newcomers and reunite with each other at the start of the semester.<\/p>\n<p>Please stop by and say hello to the freshmen! Free ice cream sundaes will be distributed at 12:30, by alumni and faculty wearing Core tee-shirts. At 1 PM, the CC105 instructors will commence the fruit drop.<\/p>\n<p>Below, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbin\/astronomy\/people.php?id=17\">Prof. James Jackson<\/a> releases experimental fruit in September 2008.\u00a0 More photos from the fruit drop in previous years can be viewed at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/core\/features\/2009-8-12-Fruit.htm\">Core website<\/a> or in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/home.php#!\/album.php?aid=2379527&amp;id=906988\">Facebook gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/2008-8-12-Fruit-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jackson at 2008 CC105 Fruit Drop\" width=\"640\" height=\"968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/2008-8-12-Fruit-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2010\/09\/2008-8-12-Fruit-1-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a department tradition, the natural sciences faculty of CC105 will once again be releasing various types of fruit from a high fire escape behind CAS, in a recreation of Gaileo\u2019s famous though apocryphal demonstration of the equal action of gravity on objects of differing weight. CC105 students are required to attend; but all members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[441],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}