Letter from the Editor
By McKinsey Skeens ’13 As Thanksgiving and winter break quickly approach, it saddens me to announce this edition will be the last newspaper to be released during the fall semester. We will pick production back up in January, with our first planned release date for the spring semester being February 9th. Just as a reminder, [...]
Social Media Sites Not-So-Sweet for Soapbox Politics
By Gabriella Muglia ’13 On Thursday, October 20th, SGA held an open forum to discuss the ongoing concerns regarding the Sweet Briar College website. This impromptu meeting was held in response to a frenzy of Facebook comments reacting negatively to the new website banner posted on the website Tuesday night that many students saw as [...]
Should Sweet Briar Offer Online Education?
By Marina Piatkov The idea of online education is not a dream of the future, but reality for many college students and teachers in the United States. As the “Learning on Distance“ statistics published by the National Center for Education Statistics this month show, about 20 percent of all undergraduates had taken at least one [...]
Hot to Trot: IHSA Show at Sweet Briar
By Greer Gordon ’12 If you ask Sarah Hibler ’14 how the IHSA show, hosted by Randolph College at the start of October, wrapped up she would have listed off the multiple Sweet Briar students who placed in each division. Upon my first request, she conveniently omitted her own success with first place finishes in [...]
Breast Cancer Awareness Month Arrives at Sweet Briar
By PJ Peek ’12 This October, Sweet Briar College will mark the 25th anniversary of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual, national event that spreads awareness about issues surrounding breast cancer. Breast cancer has become synonymous with the color pink, however, a new term has developed in the marketing world that has hit the main [...]
What’s There To Do Outside Of The Pink Bubble?
By Charlotte Hopkins ’15 In order to truly promote my first event, I must describe the musician first. St. Vincent (Annie Clark’s stage name) emerged in 2007 with her album “Marry Me.” The renaissance (wo)man, Clark applies the guitar, bass, piano, organ, vibes, and Moog “just to name a few” as iTunes puts it. When [...]
Music Column: Emika
By Libby Hannon ’12 The debut self-titled album from Emika has been an overall hit with critics and fans, who call the British ex-sound engineer’s work “creative and visionary.” The Observer (UK) says that Emika is “an intriguing work: dark, seductive and as hard to pin down as its creator.” Inspired by dubstep and trip-hop, [...]
Digital Storytelling by Bryan Alexander
By Libby Hannon ’12 On Tuesday, October 11, Sweet Briar students had the unique opportunity to attend a lecture by Bryan Alexander, senior fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE) and author of The New Digital Storytelling: Creative Narratives with New Media. In his presentation on “Storytelling for the 21st Century,” [...]
Why International Students Choose to Study at SBC
By Maria El-Abd ’12 Imagine traveling halfway around the world to attend a college locally known as “The Pink Bubble.” Sweet Briar College’s international students, a handful of twenty-three young women who come from a wide range of countries, do exactly that each year. Sweet Briar welcomes them, of course, with open arms, but as [...]
Fashion Review: Please Feed the Models
By Ellie Bryant ’12 I put my pre-planned article on hold after some press I saw from London Fashion Week. This is an article about the body. I know you’ve read the “Cosmo” and “feel good about your body” articles. They’re all horses***. It’s ridiculous to think any large media magazine has your best interest [...]
Music Feature: A Call to Rediscovery
By Wendy Sivik ’14 Once upon a time, I was five years old and sitting on my living room floor with a pile of tapes and a multicolored walk-man playing a Phil Collins mixtape on repeat. The fire place was roaring, and my favorite orange cat was sitting on my stomach, jamming with me. It [...]
Kate Chenery Speaks About Secretariat
By Rebecca Mill ’15 On October 15th, during Homecoming and Families weekend, the Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel featured Kate Chenery Tweedy, daughter of Penny Chenery. Tweedy lectured on her family’s rags-to-riches story, to a group of students and parents, some of whom arrived in their breeches and tall boots right from the Equitrials hosted on [...]
The Orange and the Skittle
By Miss C. My best friend is exquisite, and I’m not just saying that out of companionate obligation. She has an old Hollywood beauty to her, and a killer figure from running for years. In addition to this she is sweet, morally upright, intelligent and delicately funny in a way that I envy (the difference [...]
Republican Column: Not Looking Good Obama
By Julie Moorhead ’13 As President Obama reached his 1,000 day mark on Monday the 17th, there has been many calculations made on his approval rate and other things like his plans on unemployment and job loss. As much of America has mixed opinions of our president, there are some new statistics that may come [...]
Democrat Column: Republican Candidates Up Close
By Emily Weiland ’15 Greetings, True Believers! There are plenty of Republican presidential candidates running around, all with different takes on their party and different ideas about how to run this country. We’ve just got the one Democrat, our trusty old Obama, and barring any unforeseen and unforeseeable tragedy, alien invasion, etc. he’ll be the [...]
Col. Moammar Qaddafi Killed in Surt
By Corinne Adams ’12 On October 20th, 2011, Libyan dictator Col. Moammar Qaddafi was killed in his hometown of Surt, a death that many believe marks the end of Libya’s 8-month civil war. NATO airstrikes and National Transitional Council (NTC) forces on the ground forced a convoy transporting Qaddafi to scatter, resulting in his capture [...]
Fashion Review: Fashion in a Chokehold
By Ellie Bryant ’12 This weekend, I did something I thought I would never do. I went to a sample sale. Not just any sample sale mind you; I went to the J. Crew sample sale. The morning began with my roommate Hilary Bowie ’12 rousing me from my death-like slumber. After she informed me [...]
Led Zeppelin, the Daddy of Dubstep?
By Wendy Sivik ’14 I don’t care who you are or where you’re from, there is no denying that music is, in every aspect, one of the sauciest forms of expression in existence. Since the beginning, countless genres have been getting it on with your friendly-neighborhood musician with hopes of creating new baby sub-genres. The [...]
No Dean Living on Faculty Row
By Asha Godfrey ’14 Though students are bound to spot her in Prothro Dining Hall during lunchtime on weekdays, new vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty Amy Jessen-Marshall resides not in the ‘Deanery’ house on Sweet Briar’s faculty row, but in a home outside of the ‘Pink Bubble.’ She and her [...]
Vixen Volleyball Becomes Club Sport
By Rebecca Mill ’13 Due to low recruit numbers this year, the decision was made to discontinue the varsity volleyball team, which will become a club sport. After graduation, the team was left with only four returning players. The class of 2015 did not bring in enough recruits with enough experience for collegiate level play. [...]
Whats There To Do in the Bubble?
By Charlotte Hopkins ’15 It’s opening night at Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton and there are many plays being performed. William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” begins the fall season, opening on September 16. While the play depicts the story of the “hero-king,” it has been called an “exploration of the nature of greatness and its connection to [...]
Music Feature: Lynchburg Local: Hill City Roots Festival
By Gabriella Muglia ’13 Attention fans of music, supporters of community, and advocates for creativity: there is promising news this September. On the 17th and 18th of this month, on Ellis Farm in Concord (a mere 23 miles from campus) the first ever Hill City Roots Festival will take place. This two day, camp-out event [...]
Fashion Review: Fashion, You’re My Hero
By Ellie Bryant ’12 False. If you agreed with the article title, you should study more. Also, brace yourselves; I’m back from Alaska and ready to preach to you about fashion after living in an abandoned bus all summer a la Chris McCandless. Obviously, I’m on top of my game. The most fashionable I got [...]
Music Column: Adult Alternative Deserves Love Too
By Wendy Sivik ’14 I had my heart set on the perfect option for this column. A band that no one really cared about but random people had fallen in love with. However, I am going to ignore my better judgment and pay some much deserved credit to a Pennsylvanian band that is so close [...]
