BY MATT ELLIOTT Last Wednesday night, September 19, the University held a “memorial party” for Dr. Thomas P. Somma, the Director of the University of Mary Washington Galleries since 1998. Dr. Somma passed away May 10, following a long battle with cancer. He did not want a funeral, but instead, asked for a party. Just [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Sexclamations
BY KELSEY CLARK Nothing brings you closer to the people you live with than sharing a shower. Everything that’s normally covered up and left unmentioned is revealed in a shower, and even if you’re not explicitly revealing yourselves simultaneously, there are always remnants of that exposure for everyone else to find. This was particularly noticeable [...]
Susannigans: Insta-Birthday
BY SUSANNAH CLARK Last Wednesday I turned nineteen years old. I rang in my final year of teenager-hood by spending seven hours in the Bullet office, bringing you last week’s Viewpoints section. I then came home to an inbox of 50 plus email notifications from Facebook.com. My wall had been infected with birthday love. Wall [...]
Realizing the ‘Big Picture:’ America is Short-Sighted
BY BRIAN OGLE The following letter was written in response to “Remembering 911: Why We’re Winning the War on Terror” (Sept. 20, 2007 The Bullet). Dear Editor: In last week’s Bullet, Leah Kieff wrote, “We need to look at the larger picture….,” referring to the national response to the war in Iraq. It is our [...]
‘Sexclamations’ Shows Symptoms of Sexism
BY THOMAS ROBERTS The following letter is in response to Kelsey Clark’s “Sexclamations” columm (The Bullet, 2007) Dear Editor: It seems that “Sexclamations” is the main forum on morality and philosophy in the Bullet. In the last two issues, it has directly addressed those major issues. In the September 13th issue of the Bullet, author [...]
Staff Editorial: TV or not TV?
If we had a flatscreen TV in the Bullet office, and it could talk, we would ask it, “Where are you going, TV?” Sometimes TV serves us up some of the most depressing, soul-demolishing nonsense we’ve ever seen, and then, just as we’re about to throw the remote across the room, it hits us with [...]
Washroom Fees on the Rise
BY JUSTIN TONEY AND RYAN LOTT This year at Mary Washington games at the Washroom went from costing one dollar per game to one dollar per game per hour, and students are not happy about it. “That’s screwed up,” said freshman Max Sandsky. “You know it’s just to make more money.” The decision to charge [...]
UMW Buys Third Campus
BY SARAH FINNEY UMW has appropriated $2 million to buy 22 acres near the Dahlgren Naval Research base in King George County to build a new educational and research facility. University officials say the branch-which Mary Washington would operate, but which would host programs taught t by faculty from other Virginia schools-could be up and [...]
Police Beat
BY KATY BURNELL Sept. 18- At 7:50 a.m., Student Activities Director Joe Mollo reported that a Toshiba laptop computer belonging to the University had been stolen from his office between Sept. 13 and Sept. 15. Police entered the $800 computer’s serial number in a nation-wide crime database, but no information has been forthcoming. Sept. 18- [...]
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