A shot to win it
By Lacey Naff The Bridgewater women’s basketball team has been working really hard for a season predicted to be a successful one. “I think we’re really excited. We have our two seniors, Katie Hottinger and Jess Mullen. Jess is back, getting back into shape which is good. They are the captains this year [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Intramural’s crowns 2012 football champions
By Dustyn Miller Intramurals’ Crowns 2012 Football Champions Men’s Summary #1 Seed Peyton Man Things defended their men’s flag football championship by defeating #2 Seed Swangas 33-18. The PMT’s overcame a short-lived first half deficit with their stellar defense, led by Chris Baird’s three interceptions and some timely offensive production from their quarterback, Christian Armstrong. [...]
HRCDCC: Care for all
By Rebecca Heine HRCDCC—quite a mouthful. It stands for the Harrisonburg Rockingham Child Day Care Center, a center dedicated to providing child care and learning opportunities in a safe and nurturing environment. During the school year, HRCDCC provides childcare for children of two to five years, with additional summer programs for children up to [...]
Monday night with the quartet
By Sara Heflin Bridgewater College played host to the Georgia Guitar Quartet on Monday night. The group consists of four University of Georgia alumni, each of whom has been involved in music since their childhood, Kyle Dawkins, Brian Smith, Phil Snyder, and Jason Solomon. The quartet started off the night with Dawkins’s original [...]
You Lucky Girl!
A review By Nicholas Davies Nostalgia is, has, and will forever be arguably one of the most powerful agents available to the human cognitive process. That yearning for the forever-lost can, when used correctly, be a most powerful tool in the creation of an illusion; Woody Allen was able to mine an hour and [...]
Higher expectations for local middle and high school students
By Rachel Coon In Virginia public schools, students are required to take assessments called the Standards of Learning, more commonly known as “SOL’s.” These assessments are given as early as third grade and cover the core areas of study including English, math, science, and history. They are cumulative tests that provide useful information on [...]
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 [...]
A cheerleaders take
By Lacey Naff Being a cheerleader, my goal is to keep the football team and the fans as pumped as possible in hopes for a win. However, arriving on the field this past Saturday I’ll admit I was skeptical of a win since we had lost the past two games and we were about [...]
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 [...]
Faces of the Past: Edith Bowling Wilson
“The Secret President” By Chris Conte Just a few short years ago, at the turn of the last century, there was much talk of who would have been the first woman to occupy the Oval Office. Many contended it would have been Hillary Clinton or Condoleezza Rice; some frankly just did not care. In the [...]
WTX?
By Moshe Khurgel During the opening convocation, Dr. Carol Scheppard, our Dean of Academic Affairs, asked the incoming students, “What are you doing here?” While she did not expect an answer, I did! So, I posed a similar question to the 60 or so students in attendance during my “Small questions with Dr. Khurgel” [...]
Bowl full of bones
By Kathleen Herring “When they saw off part of a bone they drop it in a bowl and let me look at it – it’s great!” Junior Biology major Logan Parker excitedly recounts his first experience watching a knee replacement surgery from inside the Operating Room at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. Parker, who hopes to [...]
Death by Chocolate
By Melina Norman Don’t let the title fool you – chocolate is actually good for you, according to authors and chemists Howard and Sally Peters who presented on October 19 in McKinney Center. Chocolate is one of the top foods with the highest amount of antioxidants. The Peters, a husband and wife duo, spoke to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BC Spirit
By Lacey Naff The Bridgewater cheer squad started the season off strong despite not having men to help with stunts for the first time in several years and also with many of the girls being brand new. If you’ve been to any football games in the past several years you’ve noticed at least two [...]
Help in time of trouble
By Corley Tweedy Twenty-five years ago this month, Shirley Collins, a prominent Harrisonburg citizen, was sexually assaulted, and passed away as a result of injuries sustained. From that tragedy sprang the Collins Center, incorporated in 1989, although at the time of its inception it was called CASA, which stands for Citizens Against Sexual Assault, [...]
“It’s not so much what is fair, but what is right.”
By Corley Tweedy September 11, 2001; the BP oil spill of 2006; shootings at Virginia Tech, 2007, and in Aurora, Colorado, 2012. These are just a few of the recent tragedies featured in the media. Kenneth Feinberg, native to Brockton, Massachusetts, has served as administrator for victim compensation funds for these tragedies. Feinberg [...]
What’s to become of the Eagles’s nest?
By Melina Norman How is the Eagle’s Nest going to be used? That’s a question that has been on everyone’s mind for a while now since it ceased being a source for food. There is no answer to that question right now because there is no defined plan at this moment, but college administrators [...]
