Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
February 14, 20121:17 am
Nitze Fellow Explores Medical Innovation
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
Sophie Delaunay, the U.S. Director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), returned to St. Mary’s Hall on the evening of Feb. 8 to deliver her second lecture as the Nitze Senior Fellow for 2011-2012. The lecture, titled “Medical Innovations in Humanitarian Situations,” detailed MSF’s role as a pioneering organization, not just in the field [...]
January 31, 201212:14 am
Garth Treasures “Silence” and Absurdity in Music
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
The evening of Jan. 19 marked a posthumous musical celebration of the milestone birthdays of two renowned pianists. St. Mary’s music faculty member and pianist Eliza Garth hosted a recital in St. Mary’s Hall to honor the lives and works of Claude Debussy and John Cage; in 2012, Debussy would have been 150 and Cage [...]
January 31, 201212:08 am
Ballesteros Presents Bilingual Poetry
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
The first VOICES Reading of the spring 2012 semester featured the poetic works of José Ballesteros, a St. Mary’s Associate Professor of Spanish. A native of Quito, Ecuador, Ballesteros infused his poems with Ecuadorian and Latin cultural references and rich imagery, and dealt with themes such as youth, death, home life, and love. Israel Ruiz, [...]
December 6, 201112:18 am
Dance Show “Commands You to Dance”
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
Each semester, the St. Mary’s Dance Club exhibits the dancing and choreography talents of its members with a show that proves to be one of the most anticipated events on campus. The fall 2011 dance show, “We Command You to Dance,” continued this legacy in St. Mary’s Hall Nov. 17-19. The show featured multiple dance [...]
December 6, 201112:17 am
Women’s Basketball Wins Game Against Stevenson 80-64
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor and Taylor Schafer, Co-News Editor
The St. Mary’s women’s basketball team came out on top at their Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) home openers on Saturday, Dec. 3 against Stevenson University, winning 80-64. From tip-off, which was at 2 p.m. in the Michael P. O’Brien Athletic and Recreation Center (ARC), the squad never trailed against the Mustangs. Game leaders included sophomore [...]
November 15, 201112:28 am
Sea Voyager Cruise Ship Gets Mixed Reviews
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
On Nov. 1, 244 of the displaced residents of the dangerously moldy Caroline and Prince George’s Halls were finally allowed to move aboard their new home: a small cruise ship named the Sea Voyager, docked right outside Historic St. Mary’s City. Some students welcomed the change, while others reported a tough adjustment to life on [...]
November 15, 201112:15 am
SEA Talent Show Brings Friendship, Fun
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
Pounding percussion, harmonious voices, and clashing fencing sabers could be heard at the Student Education Association’s (SEA) third annual Talent Show in the practice gym in the Michael P. O’Brien Athletics and Recreation Center (ARC) on the evening of Nov. 4. For the past three years, the SEA Talent Show has collected donations of school [...]
November 15, 201112:04 am
Women’s Rugby Team Places Second in Division II Championships
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
The St. Mary’s women’s rugby team, after a 4-1 season, finally made it to the top four in the Potomac Rugby Union Division II Collegiate Championships during the weekend of Nov. 5-6. The women’s rugby teams from American University (ranked fourth), Catholic University of America (ranked third), and George Washington University (ranked first) all traveled [...]
November 2, 201112:18 am
Potter Palooza Celebrates Magic
By Allison Kight, Assistant Editor and Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
On Oct. 23, St. Mary’s College of Maryland temporarily transfigured into the prestigious yet fictional institution of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from J.K. Rowling’s popular “Harry Potter” series. Scheduled during the weekend in which “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ was shown in Cole Cinema, Potter Palooza offered a whole slew [...]
November 2, 201112:16 am
Nitze Fellow Delaunay Talks Compromise in Humanitarian Action
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
The first lecture out of three for this year’s Nitze Senior Fellow Public Lecture Series, entitled “Humanitarian Action and the Politics of Compromise,” was given on the evening of Oct. 18 in St. Mary’s Hall. This year’s Fellow is Sophie Delaunay, the U.S. director of the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders, which in its native [...]
October 18, 201112:23 am
College’s Sustainability Initiatives Still Going Strong
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
St. Mary’s touts itself as a green school, and yet some alumni were still wondering why the College has not shown up in any prestigious green school rankings, such as The Princeton Review, Sierra Club’s Cool Schools, or the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE) Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS).
October 18, 201112:16 am
Culture and Contention in Alexie’s Banned Book
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
The second annual Banned Books Lecture at St. Mary’s, entitled “Words Are Too Limited: Banned Books, Ethnic Literatures, and Sherman Alexie’s Junior,” was presented by Brandi Stanton, Liberal Arts Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Liberal Arts, in the library’s second floor reading room on the afternoon of Sept. 28.
September 27, 201112:21 am
A Postponed Airbands Makes Its Return
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
The date for the annual Airbands show has been moved to October 2 at 6 p.m. between the Michael P. O’Brien ARC (Athletic and Recreation Center) and the tennis courts, a change from its usual location on the Campus Center patio.
