Despite a spectacular showing on defense, the field hockey team lost 3-0 to the second best team in the country, Salisbury University, on Sunday. While Salisbury’s reputation may have seemed a bit intimidating, the Eagles never backed down. The Sea Gulls outshot the Eagles, 19-2, and had 16 penalty corners to three for the Eagles, [...]
Archive for October, 2009
‘Uncharted 2′ An Instant Classic
(5/5 stars) Featuring one of the most exciting single-player adventures I’ve ever experienced, as well as extremely addictive cooperative and competitive multiplayer modes, “Uncharted 2: Among Thieves” is a game that all PlayStation 3 owners need to have. One of the best aspects of “Uncharted 2” is how likeable its characters are. Nathan Drake deals [...]
Cross Country Vows Revenge
Last Saturday, Oct. 24, both the men’s and women’s cross country teams competed at Elizabethtown, Penn. in their last meet before the Capital Athletic Conference, to be held at Hood College on Nov. 7. On the women’s side, UMW placed second out of 11 competing teams, losing to long time rival Salisbury University. The course, [...]
Off the Record: “Embryonic” by the Flaming Lips
(3/5 stars) The Flaming Lips are like a secretly homicidal circus clown, performing with fantastic garish exuberance while maintaining a grim disdain for the crowd-pleasing antics they employ. Since the release of “The Soft Bulletin” in 1999, arguably The Flaming Lips’ finest album, fans and critics alike have been waiting for the lethargic dinosaur to [...]
UMW Ecology Club Hosts Film Series
The UMW Ecology Club and the Rappahannock Group of the Sierra Club will be co-sponsoring a screening of “The 11th Hour” this Thursday, Oct. 29 in Dodd Auditorium. The screening is the first in an ongoing series of environmentally themed films for the club’s “Green on the Screen: An Environmental Film Series.” Produced and narrated [...]
Swine Flu is Not a National Emergency
As of this week, swine flu is a national emergency, a move by President Obama that’s more of a formality than anything else, despite the dire-sounding name. Officially, the declaration gives Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelious the ability to bypass certain federal restrictions, particularly regarding the establishment of off-hospital treatment centers like [...]
Susannigans: Digital Age Limits Physical Momentos
I spent last Sunday at my grandmother’s apartment, digging through piles of wrinkled photographs and yellowing documents for a writing project I’m working on about my family history. My grandmother has compiled a remarkably extensive paper archive of the family records—complete with clipped news articles, drawn silhouettes of my relatives from the early 19th century, [...]
Homemade Treats Make Halloween Less Commericial
By Sarah Kelly Guest Columnist The approach of Halloween brings with it the memories of sights and sounds of the same dark October night of years past. We are taken back to evenings spent trick-or-treating through neighborhood streets, in jovial spirits despite the brazen cold. The black sky seemed to be lit only by the [...]
Campus Safety Important Issue for Residential Students and Commuters
Parking for anyone is a daunting issue at UMW, but for commuter students, it’s frustrating and riddled with fear. It’s an act of providence to achieve a parking space and preposterous measures must be taken to obtain one that’s close to where you need to be. I have been commuting for two years now. I’ve [...]
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