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Archive for September, 2007
Spartans Wound Eagles in OT
BY NICK JACOBS The University of Mary Washington women’s soccer team managed to string York College of PA through regulation and change before falling in double overtime on Saturday, 2-1. In their second Capital Athletic Conference bout of the season, the Eagles had a tough time moving the ball downfield, giving their offense little opportunity [...]
Thanks for the Memories, RFK
BY JOEY MERKEL Baseball has always been full of emotion for me. As a kid, some of my most vivid memories are standing out in a makeshift diamond behind our house in small-town Valparaiso, Indiana, watching Field of Dreams for the first time and attending my first pro game, seen at now-defunct Veterans Stadium in [...]
Eagles Yet to Earn CAC Win
BY JOEY MERKEL The Capital Athletic Conference has been anything but kind to the University of Mary Washington volleyball team. After a disappointing loss Tuesday night against St. Mary’s College of MD, the Eagles remain winless in the conference. Despite forcing a fifth game against the Seahawks, the Eagles were unable to pull out a [...]
Professor Ponders Peasants in Spain
BY JENCY WILLIAMS Reading 18th century documents can get to your eyes after a while. UMW history professor Dr. Allyson Poska can verify this. She’s currently in Spain on a year-long leave of absence from the university, poring over centuries-old material for her research on the lives of Spanish peasant women. The fact that she [...]
That’s What She Said: No Business like Show Business
BY MEGAN GRIGORIAN To know me is to know that I’m celebrity obsessed. If I could take a joy ride with Lindsey, baby-sit Shiloh, or party with Paris, I’d be there faster than the paparazzi the next time Britney flashes her vajayjay. I take celebrity gossip with the utmost seriousness. Sadly, I have developed a [...]
The ‘Proof’ is in the Production
BY ANNIE KINNIBURGH UMW senior Mary Pilgar is used to seeing life from a male perspective. She has played men or androgynous characters in her many past roles for UMW Theatre. But this year Pilgar will be playing a female role: Catherine, the main character in the Klein Theatre’s fall production of “Proof.” “It was [...]
Students Go Age Over Primatologist
BY LAUREN JURGENSEN Dodd Auditorium erupted with laughter last Friday when leading primatologist Frans de Waal compared a photograph of Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld to the behavior of a group of chimpanzees. de Waal, an expert on the social behavior and intelligence of common chimpanzees and bonobos, was at the University [...]
Art Professor ‘Neutralizes’ Illness
BY TIFFANY DOUGLASS Joseph Di Bella is celebrating more than his 30-year career in UMW’s Art Department. After suffering a life-threatening illness that kept him out of the classroom in Fall 2006, he is back at the drawing table, literally, reinventing himself as an artist. Di Bella, 57, was first diagnosed in 2002 with Autoimmune [...]
New School vs. Old School: Westerns
BY SERENA EPSTEIN “3:10 TO YUMA” (2007) I have a confession to make: I’ve never liked Westerns. It’s difficult to become emotionally attached to a genre that essentially consists of only one film. Poor miner/farmer/townsperson is terrorized by outlaw/neighbor/ruthless businessman. Insert crying wife/kids/saloon girls. Valiant but morally ambiguous stranger turns up just in time to [...]
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