Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
October 15, 20121:05 am
Campus Celebrates Hawktoberfest 2012
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor and Orion Hartmann, Contributing Writer
Despite menacing clouds, the “Great Bamboo Boat Race,” the Beer Tent, the 14th Annual Petruccelli 5k/Walk/Bike ride, the golf tournament, and other celebratory events proceeded as planned, part of the fourth annual Hawktoberfest (also known as Family Weekend). This year, Hawktoberfest was earlier than usual; it was the first weekend in October spanning Friday the [...]
February 2, 20132:49 pm
Movie Review: Argo
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
This past weekend I saw Argo, directed by and starring Ben Affleck (also in The Town and Daredevil). As an Affleck fan, I entered the theater with high expectations. It was fairly reasonable to have these expectations; I believe that they were completely met. The plot of Argo centers around six Americans who escaped the American [...]
February 1, 20134:35 pm
Adoptions Out of Russia Halted
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
Towards the end of 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new policy into law: starting Jan. 1, 2013, American have been unable to adopt children from Russia. This was not always a problem. In the past year alone, Russia was the third most popular country for Americans to adopt children from. In Feb. 1993, [...]
January 22, 201312:43 pm
Open Housing to be Implemented Next Year
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
In the upcoming semester, Fall 2013, the College will instate a new policy: open housing. This new policy states that members of different sexes or identified genders can live in the same room. This differs from the current policy, which allows different-gendered individuals to live in the same suite, apartment, or townhouse, but not in [...]
November 13, 201212:10 am
St. Mary’s Hosts Oyster Fest
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
On Saturday, Nov. 10, St. Mary’s College hosted an Oyster Fest on the back lawn of the River Center. The event started at noon and ended at three o’clock, with a groundbreaking ceremony beginning promptly at one o’clock. Most of the attendees of the event were community members and their families, particularly from Lexington Park, [...]
October 12, 201212:10 am
College to Switch From Webmail to Gmail
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
Over winter break, the student and faculty emails on campus will be converted from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps. Jennifer Wright, the Assistant Director of User Support and Learning Technology Services, said, “It offers a lot of advantages, both for students and for the institution. For students it means larger email inboxes, so it’s moving [...]
October 12, 201212:01 am
The Plight of On-Campus Parking
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
Not many things about this campus annoy me – the exception is usually related to parking, such as parking in the wrong lot or parking badly. I live in Waring Commons (WC), and we have two parking lots that we can park in that are close by, Lots R and S; the lot that most [...]
September 25, 201212:07 am
The Hunger Games Come To St. Mary’s
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
On Saturday, Sep. 8, from 2 to 5 p.m., the SGA Programs Board sponsored the St. Mary’s College Hunger Games in the Michael P. O’Brien Athletics and Recreation Center’s (ARC’s) Recreation Courts. From the beginning to the end of the event, students came and went while participating in a variety of games, including a wrecking [...]
September 25, 201212:06 am
E. J. Levy Kicks Off 2012-2013 VOICES Series
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
On Thursday, Sept. 13, in Daugherty-Palmer Commons (DPC), author E. J. Levy began the 2012-2013 VOICES Series by reading her short story, “Theory of Dramatic Action” at 8:15 p.m. The seats in DPC were completely full—some chairs had to be added to the audience—and students were there for a number of reasons, ranging from fulfilling [...]
September 19, 201212:11 am
Counterpoint: “Weird” isn’t always a compliment…
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
This year St. Mary’s has a new slogan: “Keep St. Mary’s Weird!” The Orientation Leaders (OLs) have put this on their shirts and emphasized it during orientation with the first-years, spreading the message that is St. Mary’s is, quite simply, weird. As a first-year, if nothing else is taken away from orientation, it is the [...]
May 1, 201212:12 am
Burlesque with WARNING: Nudity*!
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Arts & Entertainment Editor
At 9:15 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, Friday, April 27, and Saturday, April 28, Burlesque returned to St. Mary’s in a show entitled “WARNING: Nudity*!” The show took place in Montgomery Hall in the Bruce Davis Theatre. After the shows on Friday and Saturday, there were talk-backs, where audience members were given an opportunity to [...]
