BY MICHELLE DACHMAN The UMW Foundation recently bought the Park & Shop Plaza as well as the Pizza Hut and two houses across from campus. On Dec. 15, UMW Foundation, a non-profit corporation that accepts and manages university funds, bought a new lot on Powhatan Street across from the UMW campus. The lot is home [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Student Breaks Boundaries
By Anum Shaikh For the past nine years, especially since college started, I have been figuratively treading the third space between Pakistan and America. As a Muslim woman, I’ve been dealing with the decision of whether or not to wear a veil and struggling to uphold my cultural values as a Pakistani national in the [...]
Sports Teams Adjust To Cutbacks
The men’s basketball team left the Mary Washington campus at 3:30 pm on Dec. 4 to travel to Hood College in Frederick, MD. In past years the team took a charter bus; however this season vans serve as the mode of travel to most of the conference games as they are more cost effective. The [...]
Improv Troupe to Perform Friday
Mary Washington’s one and only improve comedy troupe, The Undeniably Adjacent, will host their first show of the semester Friday in Combs 139. As always, the troupe will perform three 30-minute long-form comedy sets. Each set will start with a one-word suggestion from the audience and build from there. “Beginning this Friday, every other Friday [...]
Staff Editorial: Students Should not Have to Pay for Paper Content
The New York Times recently announced that effective January 2011, their online content will no longer be available, free of charge, to the reading public. For those of us Ramen-budgeted college students who prefer their journalism to come with a side of serious professionalism, this is catastrophic news. Whatever works for the New York Times—the [...]
Single, White Unemployed Female: Pick Majors Based on Your Interests, not on Job Opportunities
“Oh,…that’s…nice,” “Are you planning on teaching?”, and my personal favorite, “What are you going to do with THAT?” Though I have tremendous respect for anyone who wants to become a teacher, people make it seem as though it’s my only option once I graduate. I guess my major, especially with my Creative Writing concentration, can [...]
Boy Meets Girl: Getting Connected to Campus Life Possible in Class
By BRYANT MATERA and KAT DICKINSON You sit there in your corner in class and wonder how in the world all these people around you seem to be such great friends. While they chatter away before the professor walks in, you ask yourself what is so wrong with you that nobody has made any effort [...]
According to Amanda…A Coffee User Confesses: How One Girl and One Drink Met
By AMANDA BOCCUTI I’m a recreational coffee user. In fact, I pride myself in using only when I really need it, like the morning after a night spent studying into the wee hours of the morning. Though I like to think I’m not attached to it, some of the paraphernalia I’ve acquired says otherwise: a [...]
Film Club Screens ‘Blue Velvet’
By Missak Artinian Sometimes a single scene can encapsulate both the promise and downfall of a film. David Lynch’s cult-classic, “Blue Velvet,” has one such scene. In this scene, the protagonist, Jeffrey Beaumont, tells his friend, Sandy Williams, “There are opportunities in life for gaining knowledge and experience. Sometimes, it’s necessary to take a risk…I [...]
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