Saudi Arabia gives Women the Right to Vote
By Katarina Allen ’12 On Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011 Saudi Arabia’s King Adullah announced that women will have the right to vote in local elections held in 2015. Not only will women be able to vote in elections, but also nominate themselves for membership in Municipal Councils and participate in the nomination of candidates. The [...]
y:1 Program Brings Reza Aslan to Sweet Briar
By Maria El-Abd ’12 On September 27, the acclaimed Iranian-born author and scholar of religions, Dr. Reza Aslan gave a lecture in Babcock’s Murchison Lane Auditorium to students and faculty members. Aslan, whose lecture was titled “Ten Years Later: Fighting Islamophobia and Understanding Muslims,” was one of the first guest speakers to come to campus [...]
A Stupid American Abroad
By Mary Kate Patterson ’13 Nothing about the preparation for this trip seemed real. I bought the books, the plane tickets, even went to the Turkish embassy in D.C. to check on the status of my visa and yet, it wasn’t until I looked out the window at 5 o’clock middle eastern time and saw [...]
Network Upgrade Triples Available Bandwith
By Emily Weiland ’13 On Wednesday, August 31, Sweet Briar College upgraded its Internet network, tripling the amount of bandwidth available to students. Before the upgrade, students were regularly maxing out available bandwidth from 8 p.m. until midnight, when many students use services like Skype, Hulu, and Netflix. According to Director of Network Services Aaron [...]
A Summer in Indonesia
By Corrine Adams ’12 Those who know me are probably aware that I’m a bit of a travel nut, and this summer, I was lucky enough to continue this reputation by spending two months in Yogyakarta, Indonesia as part of the Freeman Indonesian Non-Profit Internship Program, or ‘FINIP.’ FINIP, a program sponsored by the Freeman [...]
Conference Readings Impress Students and Guests
By Libby Hannon ’12 On April 7, 2011, Sweet Briar’s third annual Creative Writing Conference kicked off its first evening of events with readings from SBC’s visiting professor of English John Casteen and guest speaker Sandra Beasley, both award-winning poets. Casteen was introduced by David Griffith, assistant professor of English at Sweet Briar, who called [...]
Cochran Library Hosts First Annual Edible Book Fest
By MacKenzie Place ’12 Sweet Briar’s Mary Helen Cochran Library hosted the first annual Edible Book Fest April 4 at 2:30 p.m. The event’s rules demanded all entries be made out of something edible and must reference a book either through the title, characters, book cover, etc. Open to the Sweet Briar community, the Edible [...]
Sweet Briar Students Participate in Relay for Life
By Katarina Allen ’12 With the goal of spreading awareness about cancer, celebrating survivors and fundraising for a cure, Sweet Briar’s second annual Relay For Life event will take place on April 15, 2011 on the upper quad from 4p.m.-1a.m. Sponsored by the American Cancer Society, teams raise funds not only for a cure, but [...]
Briar Bowl Brainiacs: 16 Teams Competed for Title
By Jennifer Will ’13 The Spring 2011 Briar Bowl kicked off on Tuesday, March 8 in good form despite the absence of its typical emcee, Dr. Jonathan Green, dean of Sweet Briar College. The Academic Resource Center sponsors the event and usually requests Green, but this year he had a prior engagement. John Morrissey, associate [...]
Room Selection Process: Room for Improvement?
By Katarina Allen ’12 Near the end of the school year, Sweet Briar students participate in room selection. Numbers are drawn by students randomly from a box by class year on different days, a process that has been in place for many years. Every year, however, there is controversy about whether the number drawing system [...]
Vixen Tennis Team Stays Undefeated at 7-0
By Nicole Lee ’13 Contributing Writer As Sweet Briar’s tennis team cruises through its spring season, the team has set the bar high. The team established a 7-0 record by beating Richard Stockton College, Millsaps College and Concordia University at the Professional Tennis Registry’s Spring Tennis Fest that took place on Hilton Head Island, South [...]
Class of 2012 Earn Their Senior Robes at Junior Banquet
By MacKenzie Place ’12 During the week of March 21, 2011, the Sweet Briar class of 2012 participated in the well-loved tradition of Junior Week, sparking excitement and questions about where the tradition came from. Junior Week consists of juniors dressing up each day of the week in an assigned costume given by their secret [...]
Assistant Professor of English to Set Sail for a Semester at Sea
By Gabriella Muglia ’13 John Casteen, visiting assistant professor of English, will take a brief hiatus from his position at Sweet Briar College next semester to embark on his second teaching voyage with the University of Virginia’s Semester at Sea program. As a graduate of UVA who also earned an MFA through the University of [...]
CIA Sponsored Crisis Simulation Competition
By MacKenzie Place ’12 On Monday, Feb. 7, five Sweet Briar students traveled to the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. to participate in the first-ever Crisis Simulation Competition. The event was sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Project on International Peace and Security (PIPS). The simulation ran from noon [...]
Phillips Settles in as New Assistant Director of Career Services
By Katarina Allen ’12 Tandilyn Phillips, the new assistant director of career services, has already started settling in to her new position at Sweet Briar College. As the replacement for Kristin Ewing, Phillips is one of many important changes occurring in Co-Curricular Life. When asked why she applied to Sweet Briar, Phillips stated she “desired [...]
Former Sweet Briar Employee Opens Tea Room in Lynchburg
By MacKenzie Place ’12 After ten years of working for Sweet Briar College at the Florence Elston Inn and Conference Center, Patricia Hutto and her daughter, Ashley Mahne, partnered together to open the Ploughcroft Tea Room, located in the historic district of downtown Lynchburg, in October of 2010. Depending on one’s tea sipping preference, this [...]
Staff Spotlight: New Campus Student Employment Coordinator
By Katarina Allen ’12 As of Friday, February 18, Samantha Ayers, the new Campus Student Employment Coordinator and Office Manager, is flying solo and settling comfortably into her position in the Career Services Center. Though her official start date was more recent, Ayers was in training from February 3 to February 17 with Carolyn Brazill, [...]
Sweet Briar Hosts 14th Annual Leadership Conference
By MacKenzie Place ’12 On Saturday, January 29, Sweet Briar College students filled the Florence Elston Inn Conference Center to attend the 14th annual Sweet Briar Student Leadership Conference. The event was organized by a committee led by Joan Lucy, director of the Leadership Certificate Program. Following a welcome by Sweet Briar’s Vice President and [...]
DERP! The 2011 Faculty, Staff and Administration Show
By Katarina Allen ’12 On Saturday, January 29 the Sweet Briar community was honored with an energetic comedy show, Derp!, put on by Sweet Briar’s faculty, staff and administration. If you are of the group who missed this incredible performance that happens once every four years, here is a brief synopsis of that night. One [...]
Author Rebecca Skloot to Speak at Sweet Briar
By Gabriella Muglia ‘13 On November 8, author Rebecca Skloot will speak at Sweet Briar College about her most recent book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Her book has been chosen as Sweet Briar’s common reading selection for this academic year. The purpose of this program is to provide the Sweet Briar community with [...]
The Woman Behind HeLa
By Chelsea Barksdale ‘14 When you look back over the years, you should find at least one memory of your mother’s smiling face; a beautiful smile surpassing all ideas and forms of beauty that any adult holds. But when Deborah Lacks looks back, all she sees is a photograph of her mother and a mystery [...]
Briar Bowl: Battle of the Brains and Departments
By Jennifer Will ‘13 On Wednesday, October 27, the normally cozy air of the Houston Bistro was rife with tension as students, faculty and staff combined their wits to compete for prizes and prestige in the year’s first Briar Bowl tournament. The event, which takes place once every semester, features the vast knowledge base of [...]
Study Abroad in Fiji: “What I’ve learned goes far beyond what can be taught in a classroom.”
By Emily Koch ‘12 Studying abroad is something that I have wanted to do since I traveled to France and Italy my senior year of high school. I guess you could say that I got bit by the traveling bug. I enjoy going to new places and experiencing new cultures, so I figured that studying [...]
Hiking in the Blue Ridge: A Different View of Sweet Briar
By Jennifer Will ’13 Every Friday, Joe Malloy and a handful of students get to see first-hand why Sweet Briar has been lauded for having one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States. Situated among the Blue Ridge Mountains, Sweet Briar is perhaps the perfect school to offer a hiking class to its [...]
