“The Best Thanks-giving”
By Chaplain Robbie Miller Would you agree that there’s within all of us a basic human impulse to give thanks, to express gratitude for the goodness of life? Admittedly some are better at this than others. But I’d like to believe that an attitude of gratitude is somewhere deep within us all. [...]
A dangerous mix
Alcohol + education ≠ sucess By Sara Burchfield None of the students at Bridgewater College would deny that it is a dry campus. It’s voiced by tour guides to visiting high school students, incoming freshman hear the standard from their orientation speakers, and upper classmen are told from their area coordinators. The problems many [...]
A 2,000~year~old social experience
By Brooke Thacker Imagine a low-lighted restaurant, filled with tables, chairs and comfortable leather sofas. There are a few groups of young people, probably college students, talking and laughing, gathered around a tall, thin instrument with smoke coming out of a small tube. A hookah is a device used to smoke tobacco. The tobacco [...]
Exams on the horizon
By Morgan Breeden As we get around to the last few weeks of the fall semester, students will begin the treacherous road to passing final exams. Final exams can be defining moments for most students who are hanging by the skin of their teeth in certain classes. Being stressed out is bound to happen [...]
The sideline society
By Kathleen Herring John F. Kennedy once said, “We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.” Whether your enthusiasm for sports is as great as this former president’s, being able to actually take part in a game is often more [...]
Wave the waiver good-bye
The new course overload policy By Bethanie Glover BC, until this year, has been waiving the overload policy under special circumstances. The overload policy is that no one may take over 18 credit hours in a semester without paying the overload fee. However, the rule used to be waived for students who participated in [...]
Leaders on and off the gridiron
By Andrew Palmer Leadership is something that is very important and often unwanted by many people. Being a leader constantly puts you in the spotlight and can bring unwanted attention from other people. But for junior quarterback Willie Logan, leadership is something that comes natural. “I love being looked up to by my [...]
A lasting message
By Rebecca Heine This past week, Bridgewater was honored with a visit from Paul Rusesabagina, the inspiration and driving force behind the movie Hotel Rwanda. The story told through the silver screen is that of Rusesabagina and his experiences during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. During the three-month massacre, it is estimated that 10,000 Rwandans [...]
What is “The Big Question?”
By Kathleen Herring As you may or may not have heard, this year was the beginning of the new Academic Citizenship program at Bridgewater College. Also known as ‘QEP’ or by the name of its main initiative “The Big Question,” this program focuses on forming a more complete liberal arts education by facilitating important [...]
Classically folk
Choir presents “The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass” By Melina Norman This past Sunday in Carter Center, the Bridgewater campus was treated to a performance by of the Concert Choir, the Chorale, and the Oratorio Choir, directed by Dr. John McCarty and accompanied by Bluegrass musicians. The first group to perform was Chorale, [...]
Help after hours
Writing Center offers tutoring through Facebook By Katie Matherlee It’s 10:30 on a Wednesday night. You’ve just remembered that you have a wellness paper due tomorrow morning at eight. Even though you’ve already written it, you know it’s bad, and you know for a fact Dr. Kearney is going to chew it up and [...]
What is fair: Science edition
Alexander Mack Library host discussion on science and fairness By Rebecca Heine In 1951, Henrietta Lacks passed away at the age of thirty-one from stage one cervical cancer. The cells from her tumor, however, were used to create the HeLa cell line, making her immortal. When Henrietta was first diagnosed, she was treated [...]
Dinner with Tarzan
By Melina Norman This past weekend a handful of students and Bridgewater faculty received the opportunity to sit down and have dinner with actor Denny Miller, the Tarzan of late 1950s and 1960s. Professor Galloway, as a great fan of Miller and the instrumental figure in bringing the whole Tarzan convocation event together, [...]
Not your average lab
Future educators get hands-on learning By Lauren Johnson Enter Moomaw 100 and you will find colorful cubbies filled with book bags, letters of the alphabet, a plastic play kitchen, shelves full of toys, rugs for playing, a comfy couch for reading, pictures on the walls, musical instruments and much more that create the perfect [...]
Making a BIG difference for youth
By Abigail Blair When you were just a little kid, who was it that you looked up to? Maybe it was an older sibling or a grandparent, or even a family friend of some sort. Consider how your life would have been different had you not had someone to look up to. For those of [...]
Flying kites for peace
By JJ Krehbiel Last Sunday, members of the Bridgewater College community observed what was called the One Sky One World Kite Fly in front of McKinney. This gathering of kite flyers has become an annual event for the college and for communities across the globe, but the event is about much more than flying [...]
Don’t judge a book by its cover
By Corley Tweedy I read a lot. Not as much as I like, mind you, but when I have the time available, I can crush a good book in a day or two. Lately, as is the case for most college students, I have not been able to read many works of my choosing, [...]
“Raining cats and dogs”
By Kathleen Herring Copper Ridge Animal Hospital, located just three minutes from the heart of campus, is a full-service veterinary clinic and boarding facility, and the home this semester of Intern and Senior Biology major Jessica Owens. Owens, who hopes to pursue a career with either domesticated or wild animals, is acquiring internship experiences in [...]
Eagles volleyball wins invitational
By Emily Higgins This past weekend, October 5 and 6, the Bridgewater Eagles volleyball team traveled to Goucher College in Towson, Maryland to play in the Goucher Invitational. The tournament involved four games–two on Friday and two on Saturday. Friday the Eagles played Goucher College and The City College of New York finishing the day [...]
Defense struggles
By Jason Manago At Jopson Field on Homecoming weekend, the Bridgewater Eagles took their first loss of the season to the Hampden-Sydney Tigers. After starting the season on a four-game winning streak, the Eagles wanted nothing more than to beat their conference rivals on Homecoming Saturday. The Eagles defense that had been stellar all season [...]
Adopt a grandparent
By Cyndi Wibe If you ask 85-year-old Gordon Morris how you get curly hair, he will reply, “Chicken bones.” Through the Adopt-a-Grandparent program at the Bridgewater Retirement Home, Rachael Sloan met her “grandpa,” Gordon Morris, three years ago. I had the pleasure of meeting Gordon when I accompanied Rachael on one of her weekly visits [...]
No vacancy
By Jency Rogers Bridgewater College has seen growing numbers of incoming freshmen throughout the years. This fall, Bridgewater College has welcomed one of the biggest classes to come through this school. At a tied record of 552 freshmen, for the biggest class, the class of 2016 has filled every room available on campus. The school [...]
Worth a thousand words
By Abigail Blair People may get lost at times in absorbing news of tragedy and war all around the world. While seeing these stories and images of the terrible events that may occur, many people fail to consider what risks may have been taken to get the very image that they are staring at. Photojournalist [...]
The crowning glory of homecoming
By Rebecca Heine As part of the Homecoming festivities this past week, an exuberant horde of students flooded Cole Hall to watch Bridgewater’s finest sing, dance, and generally humiliate themselves before their adoring fans—all in the name of school spirit. As is only right, the ladies went first on Tuesday night. Nine beautiful and talented [...]
