Sweet Briar SGA Considers Changes to Student Handbook
By: Rebecca Mill According to recent Student Government Association meeting minutes, changes to the Student Handbook may soon be underway. The Student Government Association discussed possible changes to the Student Handbook centering on the handling of judicial process on Monday, February 20th. Academic judicial chairwoman Sarah Brazell ’12 is leading the changes, seeking to reword [...]
Tuition at Sweet Briar Continues to Rise
By: Ashley Tomlin The Office of the President recently released that there will be a 3.7% tuition increase for the 2011-2012 academic year for returning Sweet Briar students. The College has consistently had a tuition increase each year since 2007, as a result of rising operating costs such as employee health care, food, heating fuel, [...]
Curriculum Updates
By: McKinsey Skeens Dean Amy-Jessen Marshall recently hosted several Curriculum Conversations for the general student body, to inform the campus on proposed updates to Sweet Briar’s academic structure. These meetings were held in combination with the Academic Planning Committee (APC), which is a body comprised of faculty members whose roles are defined in Sweet Briar’s [...]
Sweet Briar’s Board of Directors Moves Forward with Library Expansion
By: Imani Dickerson Since 1967, Sweet Briar College has faced difficulties with a lack of space in its library. The colleges’ 300,000 books have been forced to migrate out of the space over the years, some even winding up in physical plant storage. The college’s Board of Directors is seeking to end such migrations, and [...]
9 Years After Grutter, Affirmative Action Returns to Supreme Court Docket
By: Corinne Adams On February 21st, the United States Supreme Court announced it had agreed to hear the case of Abigail Fisher, a young Caucasian woman claiming she was rejected from the University of Texas at Austin on the basis of race. The case could potentially overturn the Court’s 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bolinger, [...]
Hampden-Sydney College Ends Their Contract with ARAMARK Catering
By: Rebecca Mill As its sister school Sweet Briar finishes their first year with ARAMARK food services, Hampden-Sydney College’s 56th year with the company will be its last. Hampden-Sydney will terminate their contract with ARAMARK at the end of this year and begin using the company Thompson Hospitality for their dining needs.According to Hampden-Sydney’s Vice [...]
Cholera and Hope in Haiti
By: Mary Kate Patterson Just over two years after the devastating earthquake in Haiti and still the everyday life for Haitians has not returned to normal. Update reports from newscasters around the globe have commented on the lack of progress in the living conditions of the Haitian people. Most still live in makeshift tent camps [...]
How is Your Heart?
By: Melissa Clough Did you know that your leading health threat is heart disease? Yes, your heart is more at risk than you might be aware and chances are that your health care provider may not be talking to you about it. In fact, one in three deaths in women are from heart disease and [...]
Why The New Cause of Conservatives Helps No One
By: Emily Weiland In Georgia, House Bill 954 is working its way through the legislative process. It would ban abortions after twenty weeks, barring exceptional cases where the life of the mother is threatened, based on the unproven idea that fetuses can feel pain after that point. In Florida, House Bill 277 would require a [...]
A Little Bit On Education
By: Julie Moorhead I find it hard to believe that in the fall of 1967, my mother only paid $50 for one semester of tuition at the University of Texas at Austin and my aunt only paid $16,000 for all four years at a private college in 1974. Times have changed when it comes to spending money, [...]
Supremacy of the First
By: Miss C Throughout our lives, we repeatedly celebrate our firsts. Our first steps, first words, first car, the first time we have sex, the first alcohol adjacent poor decision-making experience. We seem to memorialize every initial experience that we could possibly imagine- including our romances. Your first (true) love is always a big one. [...]
Fashion on a Budget
By: Mary Kate Patterson February 17th marked the beginning of the London Fashion week for Fall/Winter of 2012. After the few tepid days of sun Sweet Briar had, its hard to even begin to think of fall and the beginning of another winter. With those sunny days in mind I’d like to revisit the lines [...]
Lacuna Coil
By: Elizabeth Hannon The end of January and the first week of February marked many big release dates for rock fans. Out of all of these releases, I chose to pick up Dark Adrenaline, the sixth album from Italian metal band, Lacuna Coil. I was first introduced to Lacuna Coil several years ago, when a [...]
Hitting Off the New Season with Spunk
By: Katarina Allen After six weeks of training the Sweet Briar College Vixen softball team has released their official schedule for the 2012 season. The team hits the diamond for its season debut on Wednesday, March 7 when the team travels to Norfolk, VA for an Old Dominion Athletic Conference double-header with Virginia Wesleyan College; [...]
Hot to Trot
By: Sarah Hibler February 25th turned out to be a great day in the lands of horse shows. That was the day Sweet Briar’s riding center held its SWVHJA Winter Show with many student participants. In the Open Hunter Division Annabel Voorhees’13 and Sweet Briar’s Morning Edition won champion, placing first and second in her [...]
Carrie Brown Appointed Visiting Professor of Creative Writing by Hollins
By: Katarina Allen ’12 On January 9th, 2012, Hollins University appointed Carrie Brown as their distinguished visiting professor of creative writing. Brown, an associate professor of English and the Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College, has taught creative writing courses in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction for the past 18 years. Brown is the [...]
Costly Catering on Campus
By: Rebecca Mill ’15 Upon returning to school in the fall, many students expressed their surprise regarding ARAMARK and the many changes that were associated with the transition. However, clubs were also taken aback by the new-and higher-costs of catering for their events. According to senior Alex Grobman, “It appears that clubs and organizations on [...]
MMC Wins Awards
By: McKinsey Skeens ’13 On Tuesday, February 14th, 2012, Sweet Briar College’s Media, Marketing, and Communications department announced it would be receiving five awards for various publications from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Sweet Briar is part of CASE’s Southeast District III within the North American district. The Southeast District III [...]
Human Rights Advocate, Jacqueline Murekatete Visits Sweet Briar
By: Corinne Adams ’12 Jacqueline Murekatete, a human rights activist and survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, spoke to the Sweet Briar community on February 17th as part of Sweet Briar’s Honors Program Colloquia series “Testing Tolerance.” Murekatete, a genocide survivor who arrived in the United States in 1995, described the journey of her escape [...]
Increase in FARC Related Violence in Columbia
By: Mary Kate Patterson ’13 Within the past three months FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), the rebel group that produces about 50% of all cocain on the world market and 60% of the cocain smuggled into the United States, has increased its acts of violence against the Colombian government. The attacks on Colombian military [...]
New Exhibit “The Body Politic” on Display in the Benedict Gallery
By: Rebecca Mill ’15 February 9th marked the opening of a new exhibit in the Benedict Gallery. “The Body Politic,” a show of caricatures by Pat Oliphant, now adorns the walls. According to The Roanoke Times, the exhibit “[features] caricatures of past presidents, vice presidents and presidential hopefuls.” The show at Sweet Briar highlights a [...]
Endstation Fundraiser Successful
By: Elizabeth Hannon ’12 On Saturday, February 11, Endstation Theater Company held their annual Valentine’s fundraiser, “Sonnets and Chocolate” at the Academy of Fine Arts in downtown Lynchburg. According to Endstation’s website, the contributions from ticket sales and the silent auction met the company’s fundraising goal for the evening, marking the night as a great [...]
Health Care’s Preventative Care Policy Causes Controversy
By: McKinsey Skeens ’13 On February 13th, 2012, the Washington State House of Representatives approved the Reproductive Parity Act sponsored by Rep. Eileen Cody (D-34) in a 52-46 vote. The legislation will require all health insurance policies that cover maternity care to cover abortion care as well. The legislation comes on the heels of the [...]
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Grant Dispute with Planned Parenthood
By: McKinsey Skeens ’13 On January 31st, 2012, Susan G. Komen for the Cure announced it would no longer allow Planned Parenthood to apply for grants to fund the organization’s educational centers and breast cancer prevention screenings, a decision that was reversed three days later following outcry from Planned Parenthood supporters. Founder and CEO of [...]
