The Weekly Ringer

The University of Mary Washington Student Newspaper

Month: January 2010

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By Anum Shaikh For the past nine years, especially since college started, I have been figuratively treading the third space...

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Mary Washington’s one and only improve comedy troupe, The Undeniably Adjacent, will host their first show of the semester Friday...

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By Missak Artinian Sometimes a single scene can encapsulate both the promise and downfall of a film. David Lynch’s cult-classic,...

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By David Tindell In an era of apocalyptic fear, we are certainly in no shortage of end-of-the-world movies (think “2012,”...

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by Paulina Kosturos Who knew Sherlock Holmes could sport a pair of ripped abs! In Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes,” an...

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by Landon James The Prince of Pop may have left the building but the Prince of Darkness is still in....

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BY BRYNN BOYER AND SARAH SANDERS Since the beginning of the semester, desks at the entrance of freshman residence halls...

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It might seem like many freshmen leave the University of Mary Washington after their first year, but statistics show that...

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Jan. 19- A Fredericksburg resident called to report a possible “peeping Tom” near Russell Hall. UMW police responded two minutes after...

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Last weekend, Mary Washington’s men’s and women’s teams achieved a resounding sweep of Gettysburg College, with the men tallying a...

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As I enter the second semester of my junior year of college, I am beginning to realize I am somehow...

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By Brittany Nassef On Wednesday, Jan. 22,  UMW welcomed renowned, award-winning poet, orator, and award winner, Nikki Giovanni, in celebration...

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By ANDREW ELLIOTT The 2009-2010 college football season was one of the more eventful ones in recent memory. However, some...

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Maybe I would have liked James Cameron's mega-movie “Avatar” if I hadn’t seen Disney’s “Pocahontas” fifteen years ago. But I...