5…4…3…2…1…SnapChat
Amrit Judge Thanks to “two Stanford guys,” we now have the next big thing right at our fingertips. If you have not yet heard of Snapchat, let me fill you in. The Snapchat team defines it as “a new way to share photos with friends and family. We’re making “social media” fun again. And we’re [...]
High Stakes Election: Why I’m Voting
Emily Weiland The election is here.I hope you find the time to vote, because there’s a lot at stake; I’m sure nearly all of you know who you will vote for. Maybe you aren’t voting, because you didn’t register or because you can’t, for whatever reason. If you can, though, I really hope you do. [...]
Confessions of a Tech #Addict
Amrit Judge This is an intervention. For those that know me, know I live on @Twitter and my heart beats to the tri-tone sound of my iPhone. We’re all connected; all the time; every moment of every day. Sometimes I have so many thoughts I need to tweet, that I have to schedule them so [...]
Gambino: Mastermind of Rap and Funny
Wendy Sivik ’14 It was a sticky evening in July and we were finally standing in line with hundreds of other twenty-somethings just outside of The National in Richmond. We were all anxious for this long awaited concert to finally happen. Devastated doesn’t even begin to describe how upset I was upon learning the original [...]
Why You Need To Vote
Julie Moorhead ’13 November is around the corner and the younger generation needs to be more involved in the voting process now more than ever. As young twenty-somethings, we are just now starting to form our political opinions. We may no longer feel the way our parents feel and we are becoming more aware of [...]
Think Different. Think iPhone 5.
Amrit Judge ’14 The recent announcement of the iPhone 5 marked yet another important milestone for Appletes, a term I prefer to Apple Fanboys. Though the event was not live-broadcasted, I sat in class constantly refreshing the live-blog feeds. The iPhone 5 is not completely redesigned, so those with the 4 or 4S unable to [...]
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 [...]
