by WALKER RAMSPOTT Contributing Writer The humanities as an academic field is dying. Indeed, in an era of postmodernity, industrialization,...
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Keshana Johnson, Noah Harold, Sarah Baxter, Elizabeth Foltz, Logan Miller, & Flavia Pineda Contributing Writers We are students currently enrolled...
By TERRA DICKINSON Contributing Writer Looking for something to read that's not your textbook for class? Come check out Simpson's...
LAURA GREELEY Contributing Writer I'm Laura Greeley, I work at Simpson Library, and I am in charge of course reserves....
By THE ORIENTATION TEAM Contributing Writer This past week an article titled, “Expensive first year student program should be optional”...
By ALEXANDRA COOPER Contributing Writer College is expensive. I think that is something that most people can agree on regardless...
By SARAH TEAGUE I am more and more frustrated by the western world and its actions against the immigrants to Europe....
By SARAH TEAGUEThis article is addressed to Kayleigh Rongey in support of her article “Hollywood’s glamorization of parenthood isn’t fooling...
By JOSEPH SARATORIAva DeVernay, the notable director of the 2014 Oscar nominated film Selma, and most recently the 2016 Netflix’s...
By CHRIS MARKHAMAn open letter to the open letterDear open letter,I was thinking of the most passive aggressive way to...
By GRANT RAYCROFT“Snowflake” is a term I’ve noticed gaining traction in recent years. Not referring to the crystallized raindrops which...
By GRANT RAYCROFTI went home for spring break last week and explored my old haunts. I live in Alexandria, Virginia,...
By EMILY GROTTLENo matter how many times someone tells me I need to accept the fact that Donald Trump is...
By IAN SCOTT WILSONJeff Sessions, on February 1, was approved by the Senate Judiciary committee in an 11-9 vote. The...
By REX TILLERSONOn Febuary 1st 2017, as much of the Trump cabinet was still being held up by senate democrats,...
By GRANT RAYCROFTOn Feb. 1, the University of California, Berkeley cancelled a planned speech from a noted Alt-Right figure in...
By IAN SCOTT WILSONPresident Trump’s border wall has been called every terrible name in the book. Republicans have taken so...
By IAN SCOTT WILSONBarrack Hussein Obama is the only President of these United States to have the distinction of presiding...
By BRANDON QUINTIN*Note: this Op Ed was submitted on Jan. 22*Sorry to break it to you, but yes, he is...
By BRADLEY VEERHOFAt the time of writing this piece, it would be one week since the announcement was made about...
By QUENTIN BENTZIN America as a country was never designed to have only two political parties, battling head to head in...
By MATTHEW GOOD Over the course of the past several weeks, divestment has reemerged as a forefront issue on several college...
By FILAGOT TAYE & LILIAN PEREZ The scourge of ignorant acts of sexism and racism committed by students has negatively...
By SARAH KINZER & ZAKARIA KRONEMER When the UMW Board of Visitors rejected the formation of an exploratory subcommittee for...
By BEATRICE OHENE-OKAE Last month for Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, some students got to relax and debrief on their...
By KELLI MUSICK The University of Mary Washington is not a feminist-friendly campus. I acknowledge that by putting forth this...
By BENJAMIN HERMERDING As president of the University of Mary Washington Young Democrats, I was overjoyed to hear our president...
By PAIGE MCKINSEY Last semester I was asked if I thought the University of Mary Washington was a “feminist friendly...