By ALLY BLANCK President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening touched on a variety of themes,...
Month: February 2013
By MAX REINHARDT On Tuesday night, primetime television viewers were forced to watch President Barack Obama deliver his annual string...
By BRIDGET BALCH There is one issue, of the many the students of the University of Mary Washington must face,...
Here is something that most Americans can agree on: working people deserve health coverage. Because this expectation is so widely...
The University of Mary Washington is known to outsiders as a small liberal arts school, but a recent move on...
By MARIAH YOUNG The first thing you are taught as a journalist is that ethics matter. Not only do they...
By LEIGH WILLIAMS On Wednesday, Feb. 6, students and community members alike gathered in the Anderson Center with unrestrained enthusiasm...
By UPMA KAPOOR Every second Saturday of the month at 8 p.m., six or more Fredericksburg residents gather at Read...
By RIVES KUHAR Grains of rice, M&Ms and pretzel crumbs waited on a white, porcelain plate as Ryan Vaughn, in...
By KATIE REDMILES On the weekend of Feb. 8, Cheap Seats held a double feature event, showing part one and...
By NICOLE CONTRINO For many, the zombie genre of film has begun to die out, since there is only so...
ARIES Just because you are spending the evening with your class doesn't mean that they love you. TAURUS You don't...
By MEGHAN COOKE College is supposed to be your home away from home. You live here, you eat here and...
By JOE CLAYTON Junior Alex Blakhin returns a serve (photo credit: Clint Often). The University of Mary Washington men’s tennis...
Carol Dye (photo credit: Clint Often) By KEVIN BOILARD As the University of Mary Washington women’s basketball team approaches the...
By ALISON THOET Acting on a recommendation from the Virginia Department of Human Resource Management (DHRM), Gov. Bob McDonnell submitted...
By CHARLOTTE RODINA Entrepreneurs Abbas Haider and Robert Davis spend their time designing whatever ensemble their clients can imagine, from...
By SUZANNA TOSKE Two University of Mary Washington students recently created a Facebook page called UMW Compliments, on which students...
By REGINA WEISS Last Thursday, the department for Classics, Philosophy and Religion recently hosted their annual Thomas Jefferson Lecture celebrating...
By MOLLY HODGES Ethan Bottone, a junior geography and biology double major, and the Writing Center and Writing Program Director...
By RUTH DALRYMPLE The psychology department is involving its students in the selection of a replacement for professor Denis Nissim-Sabat...
By CARA SEXTON Last spring, University of Mary Washington students finished 18 overall in the nationwide RecycleMania competition and plan...
By ALISON THOET Theft There was a grand larceny of two manhole covers in the Simpson Library parking lot at...
Black History Month keynote speaker Nwando Achebe, a history professor at Michigan State University and author of “The Female King...
By GRANT NEROVE A great injustice exists here at the University of Mary Washington. A form of intolerance and discrimination...
By LUKE MENDELSOHN On Jan. 28, a group of eight senators, composed of four Democrats and four Republicans, put forward...
By MAX REINHARDT The day after President Barack Obama trounced Mitt Romney at the ballot box, the entire Republican Party...
By COLLEEN HUBER Whether or not you are a football fan, almost every American sets aside one Sunday a year...
By ALICE KATHERINE The University of Mary Washington provides health care services for students through the on-campus Health Center, but...
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is an organization that has existed since 1910; by all accounts, it is an...
