NICK NELSON The University of Mary Washington birthday bash had an unwelcome guest last Saturday, when the men’s soccer team lost to York College of Pennsylvania 2-1 in front of a raucous Homecoming crowd of more than 700 students and alumni. York drew first blood, scoring at 4:01 in the first period on a free [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Police Beat
KATY BURNELL Oct. 12- At 3:33 a.m., a Jefferson Hall R.A. summoned police to the first-floor room of a 19-year-old male student after finding him severely intoxicated and unresponsive. Police alerted the Fredericksburg Rescue Squad, who transported the student by ambulance to Mary Washington hospital. Oct. 13- At 12:26 p.m., a UMW bike officer toppled [...]
Staph at UMW
KATY BURNELL A campus-wide health alert confirming three cases of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among residential students sent Tuesday urged the campus community not to panic—school officials say good hygiene and hand-washing should be enough to keep students safe. MRSA, (pronounced MEER-suh), a strain of staph infections resistant to penicillin and related antibiotics, can be spread [...]
Out Cold
STEPHANIE BREIJO A University of Mary Washington sophomore was airlifted to the INOVA Regional Trauma Center in Fairfax, Va. after sustaining a severe concussion during a homecoming rugby game. The last thing that 20-year-old Blake Murray can remember before losing consciousness Saturday is the shock of head-to-head impact with a member of the opposing team. [...]
Going Green: $8.5 Mil Energy Conservation Effort Underway
JESS PIKE Since 2005, school officials say UMW has spent $8.5 million on renovations to reduce energy consumption, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and to make the campus “green” in other ways. The University of Mary Washington joined with NORESCO, an energy consultant company in 2005 and signed an energy performance contract. This contract was initiated [...]
Mission Abort
ERIN LEACH-KEMON AND KAT SAUNDERS Last Thursday, hundreds of Mary Washington students assembled in response to a graphic four-hour anti-abortion demonstration by an off-campus group in Ball Circle—some rubbernecking, others heartily protesting. Approximately 35 members of Life and Liberty Ministries, a “Christian outreach” group based in Powhatan, Va., stationed themselves around campus beginning at 11 [...]
That’s What She Said…
TIERNEY MCAFEE Last Thursday, God visited UMW to remind us that all pro-choicers, gays, and porno fans are going to hell. No, wait. It wasn’t God; it was just the Life and Liberty Ministries, a group of people who somehow collectively believe themselves to be God. The ministry came to campus wielding giant, grotesque posters [...]
UMW Musician is Piping Hot
LAUREN JURGENSON Students walking to dinner on campus are often nightly serenaded with bagpipes by sophomore Chance Bell. But it is not always easy to spot the piper from his perch among the trees below Seacobeck Hall. Those who do catch a glimpse of Bell, a member of the Eagle Pipe Band, are eager to [...]
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