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. [...]
Men Cannot Be Puffy Painted
By: Miss C My darling Sweet Briar denizens, I confess to the most unspeakable of sins- I. Loathe. Puffy Paint. I loathe everything about it- the unreasonable amount of time it takes to dry, the obnoxious looking colors, even the way it smells when I walk into a room that is equal parts room spray [...]
Equal Opportunities For Minors?
By: Emily Weiland ’15 I’ve got a simple new metric for figuring out whether a person’s ethical arguments are worth my time: what protections should be in place for children? When I say children, I mean legal minors: humans who, wherever they’re living, do not have quite the same rights and responsibilities as adults do. [...]
Medicare Revamped
By: Julie Moorhead ’13 When most college students see the word “Medicare,” it’s not exactly a word that catches their attention, but it is a program that should be paid attention to by all Americans and not just senior citizens. Senators Tom Coburn, R-OK, and Richard Burr, R-NC, are introducing a new Medicare recovery bill [...]
Woman to Woman Talk: SBC Health & Wellness
By: Dr. Rosie Lewis, DNP, ANP-BC WARNING: Sleep deprivation may be hazardous to your health. Sleep, as we all know, is a fundamental need of the body. Physiologically speaking, the body’s biological clock is designed in a way that regulates the 24-hour day to the basic functions of the body, including hormone secretion, fluctuations in [...]
And Then There Were Four
By: Julie Moorhead ’14 The Republican Primary elections seem more like a battleground now that the race has only four candidates. If you ask me, there isn’t a better combination of characters to add comedy and drama to the elections season as it continues to raid the political airwaves. Newt Gingrich is the loud, rash [...]
Letter From The Editor
By: McKinsey Skeens ’13 As the semester kicks off, The Voice is excited to be up and running once again! There have been several changes with our reporting processes and goals throughout the last semester, the largest being the release of our new layout. The staff and myself are excited to see this goal come [...]
Republicans Want to Get All Up in Your Uterus
By: Emily Weiland ’15 First there are initial debates. Then the critics come out and say their bit and watch like hawks for who is favored to win. After this, the public gets in on the action, and polls are run and tabulated. But then there’s some pageantry, and the envelope is opened, and we [...]
The One Love
By: Miss C I personally believe in a great many things. I believe that at some point in time, my beloved Redskins will win more than two games in a row (I’m not hoping for Super Bowl glory, that seems like a bit much). I believe that someday capybaras will be legalized as pets. I [...]
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, [...]
Fear of the “O” Face
By Miss. C Miss C loves her orgasm. Whether a group activity or a solo exercise, I love my orgasm like Bubba Gump loves his shrimp- regardless of method, seasoning or mental capacity of the sous chef. In fact, I’m entirely confident that if I did not in fact get happy at least once a [...]
Vixen Life Lesson III: Dorm Sweet Pigsty
By Asha Godfrey ’14 You wake up one beautiful Saturday morning. The sun is shining through the window above your bed, and the smell of fresh linen surrounds you as you peep your head up from underneath your down blanket and duvet. You step out of bed and onto a dirty sock; it’s just a [...]
53% Say: Occupy Wall Street does not represent us
By Emily Weiland ’15 “The problem is, you 99%, you aren’t willing to eat dirt sandwiches to follow your dreams and turn a 15k a year business into a million dollar one.” So reads an October 30 post on the53.tumblr.com, a blog created as a reaction to the claims by protestors in the Occupy Wall [...]
Republican Column: “Occupy What?”
By Julie Moorhead ’13 So I think now is the time to write about the Occupy Wall Street campaign. I have been trying to avoid this topic as I know there are many different views on the issue, but because there was a lack of anything else interesting to write about for this column, I [...]
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 [...]
An Adventure in Alaska
By Ellie Bryant ’12 When I stepped off the plane in Juneau and caught a taxi to the ferry, I felt more excited than I had in a long time. Just seeing the mountains again made my heart beat a little faster as I settled in for the four hour ferry to my final destination; [...]
Republican: Palin Not Running in 2012
By Julie Moorhead ’13 This past Sunday, former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin announced that she will not be running for presidential office in 2012. During the summer, Palin seemed to “tease” the nation’s voters with whether or not she was going to run. With her east coast bus tour and public appearances at such [...]
Democrat: Why it’s Okay to Like Obama
By Emily Weiland ’15 It’s interesting to note that detractors of President Obama’s healthcare plan refer to it as “Obamacare.” When did “care” become a bad word? When did associating a man’s name with “care” become slander? That’s a nitpick, I guess. But opponents of President Obama’s time in office have been broadening their approach [...]
Vixen Life Lesson Two: Dorm Room Therapy
By Asha Godfrey ’14 As we filled out the endless paperwork that inevitably comes with verifying our place at an institution of higher education, some of us Vixens worried about our distance from home. Most of us struggled with strategies of balancing schoolwork and social activities. My worries consisted mostly of the fear I would [...]
