Last week, The Bullet said farewell to its departing senior editors and welcomed an entirely new editing staff. This transfer of power happens annually, but rarely are the personnel changes so dramatic. Only one page editor from this spring will continue at their position; the rest are graduating or moving to a different position. This [...]
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Staff Editorial: Student Creativity Overlooked In University Image Campaign
In the fall, the University hired Educational Marketing Group to recreate and revamp the image we, as a university, portray to the public. The result of this initiative was a new university brand—“Where great minds get to work.” However, due to outsourcing, the marketing opportunities for students on campus were minimal. As such, UMW is [...]
A Critical Look at Two-Dollar Challenge
It’s that time of the year again, folks. That’s right, the time when a handful of students embark on the “Two-Dollar a Day Challenge” so they can feel like they’re making a difference, even though all they’re really doing is trivializing a serious issue.
Well Adjusted to Injustice
Stand Your Ground is a recent law passed in Florida protecting the rights of individuals claiming self-defense. The law says that an individual has “no duty to retreat” and has the right to “meet force with force, including deadly force.” This law and many like it around the country were spearheaded by the National Rifle [...]
Reconsidering Immigration After School Shooting in Europe
Western Europe’s trend for stringent anti-immigration sentiments have come back to the forefront of people’s concerns, following Monday’s shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France. This shooting is the third brutal attack in the area by what authorities think is the same man, according to the New York Times. Theories suggest that motivation for [...]
Invisible Children Raises Awareness, But is it Enough?
At this point, the likelihood that you’ve encountered the activist group Invisible Children’s “Kony 2012” campaign is exceedingly high. The 29-minute viral video sparked passionate reactions ranging far on each end of the spectrum, with the staunchest defenders and harshest critics each shouting their respective stance from our new-aged mountain top: the Internet.
Discovering Truth But at What Cost
Award-winning journalist Marie Colvin was killed on Feb. 22 in Homs, Syria. She was a war correspondent for the Sunday Times, a British newspaper, for 20 years. She covered the Syrian Civil War during a time when the Syrian government severely restricted foreign journalists access to the country.
Let’s Not Hastily Draw Conclusions
The University of Mary Washington’s men’s basketball coach Rod Wood will be returning to work Friday, Feb. 24 at noon after being placed on administrative leave last week. Wood was arrested on Wednesday, Feb. 15 for reckless driving and was charged with a DUI. Wood had been pulled over for speeding on Route 1 last [...]
Young Voters Can be The Change They Wish to See
A couple of weeks ago, the Bullet ran an article about how conservatives are trying to cripple college students’ right to vote, as they believe students tend to baselessly vote liberal. This is in contrast to the efforts of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which has been unsuccessfully encouraging volunteers to promote voting among young [...]
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