By BECKY LITTLE At about 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 14th, 13 members of the Mary Washington chapter of Students for...
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By ELIOT HAGEN Valve has never made a bad game. From the still incredibly popular “Counter-Strike” games to the universally...
BY JOHN SHERIDAN If you’re anything like me, you’re constantly dying for something new to do in Fredericksburg. The only...
BY JESS MASULLI President Judy Hample stressed the need for an enhanced student experience at UMW in her hour-long State...
By AARON RICHARDSON Seth Casana stands on stage with his band Midnight Spaghetti and the Chocolate G-Strings, steam rising from...
BY LANDON JAMES This Friday is the only chance you will have to see the first ever individual concert by...
BY ELIOT HAGEN There’s never really been an unwatchable Bond movie. They all follow the same formula, incorporating guns, gadgets,...
By RYAN MARR The UMW theatre department is blurring the line between faculty and student in their currently running production...
By JOEY MERKEL The powerhouse that is the University of Mary Washington women’s basketball team will open its season when...
BY JOEY MERKEL After a season that ended 8-6-5 with a first round ousting in the Capital Athletic Conference tournament,...
BY JOEY MERKEL Congrats to any football team that has a starting quarterback over 35 years old. If you do,...
By ANDREA NEALON Student life during the Vietnam War at the University of Mary Washington mirrored a tense time in...
BY TRICIA CALLAHAN The Beastie Boys headlined a concert in Richmond on Tuesday, Oct. 29 that hoped to get young...
By JOHN SHERIDAN 1. Steps Toward Real Equality A non-white candidate has been elected president. What some said was impossible...
BY RYAN MARR 18-year-old Daniel Bachman remembers the first time he met Adam Bray. “I had been trying to pre-order...
By ELIOT HAGEN “LittleBigPlanet” is indisputably one of the biggest PlayStation 3 exclusive releases in the console’s lifespan. Its innovative...
BY SARAH SMITH Two weeks ago, UMW terminated negotiations to purchase Cicolina, an Italian villa, to facilitate a study abroad...
BY BRITTANY De VRIES His accomplishments have yet to fall beneath amazing. The University of Mary Washington’s Kappa Upsilon chapter...
BY ERIC STEIGLEDER The UMW Modern Foreign Language Department lost two professors this semester, causing disruptions for both students and...
BY ANNIE KINNEBURGH The University of Mary Washington plans to break ground in early spring on a new 300-room student...
BY ELIZABETH NOWROUZ “It’s time to rethink the drinking age.” So say the signatories of the Amethyst Initiative, an effort...
BY JESS MASSULI Two Eagle Scouts never expected the Fredericksburg fire marshal to show up at a Rowe Street house...
BY HEATHER BRADY Regional The Rev. George O. Lowe, 71, was convicted on Tuesday, Sept. 2 of molesting Benjamin Marsh,...
BY ANNIE LONGERBEAM Unlike the Martin Luther King Jr. and hip-hop speeches given throughout Black History Month, last DATE’s lecture...
BY ELIOT HAGEN “Mega Man” is one of the franchises that fizzled before 2000 and has since been represented by...
BY RYAN MARR An uneasy foreboding dictated my feelings for indie-psych-pop sideshow Of Montreal last June, when Kevin Barnes, the...
BY ELIOT HAGEN It’s been a little over a decade since we first popped “Fallout 2,” one of the greatest...
BY ANDREW HOFFMAN Now that the long drawn-out Presidential campaign has come to a close, Americans everywhere should be happy...
BY KASEY NEBAL After my audition for this year’s Invisible Children Date Auction, I predict the night will be filled...