By WHITNEY JORDAN As Arthur Ashe once said, “One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.” The University of Mary Washington’s men’s tennis team captured this seniment when they swept the Roanoke Maroons this weekend 7-0 in the campus tennis center. Both the Eagle’s doubles and singles players were [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Women Split This Week’s Double-Header
By MARIE PURKERT The University of Mary Washington’s women’s tennis teams split its two matches against Methodist University and Division One UNC Wilmington on Sunday. The Eagle women first fell to the Wilmington Seahawks, 8-1, but then rallied to top Methodist, 9-0 later that day. UMW now advances to 3-1 this season, boasting two wins [...]
With Mounting Costs, Lee Hall Accrues Debt
By KATY BURNELL wo million additional dollars are needed to finance an overhaul of Lee Hall, a project that was initially slated to cost $17 million, according to Vice President of Administration and Finance Rick Hurley. Hurley said UMW’s original cost estimate fell $1.5 million under the lowest bid from six different construction firms, which [...]
Personnel Shift at Health Center
By BRITTANY DEVRIES After over thirty years under the same direction, the Health Department at the University of Mary Washington will go through an administrative transition. Ilma Overman, former University Physician and Director of the UMW Health Center, officially retires her position in March. The University welcomes P. Thomas Riley to take over Overman’s position [...]
Annual Auction For Psych
By SARAH FINNEY On Wednesday night, the fourth annual Topher Bill Memorial Scholarship Auction was held in Chandler Hall. The University of Mary Washington’s Psychology Department, with the Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society, helped plan, organize and operate this public scholarship auction. The auction helps to support and fund the Topher Bill Memorial Scholarship. Named [...]
Frawley Hosts Open Forums
By KATY BURNELL This week, President William Frawley set out to follow through with previously-made promises to improve communication between the office of the President and the UMW campus community. Frawley initially targeted improving communication as an issue in this semester’s presidential letter. In the letter, posted to the UMW Web site Jan. 30, Frawley [...]
Politics Lead to Arrest For ’06 Grad
By ERICA JACKSON Last Saturday evening, UMW alumnus Andrew Stone left his Fredericksburg apartment on a mission: to confront members of the University’s College Republicans about their beliefs concerning the Iraqi War. With military brochures in hand and a list of names and addresses in his pocket, the 2006 grad was only on his second [...]
Students Urge UMW to Take Holidays More Seriously
By K.J. ADLER The University of Mary Washington does not celebrate national holidays by suspending classes and students are beginning to ask why. Junior Marija Ozolins and seniors Stephanie Parker and Tempa Klinegores were three of the leading voices in asking questions about why the school resumes on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. They [...]
You’re Killin’ Me: A New Column for the Misanthropes of UMW
By TIERNEY McAFEE Bad P.R. As comedian Michael Ian Black proclaimed during his recent visit to UMW, P.R. is everything. He even went so far as to attribute the Nazi’s defeat to bad public relations. When confronted by the latest batch of flyers from the student-run, anti-birth control group, Project Plus, I couldn’t help but [...]
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