Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
February 28, 201212:05 am
Pink Out With Women’s Basketball at the ARC
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
On Saturday, Feb. 18, on top of an 85-60 win over Frostburg State University, the St. Mary’s women’s basketball team hosted a “Play 4 Kay” event at the Michael P. O’Brien Athletic and Recreation Center (MPOARC) to benefit the Kay Yow Cancer fund. The Kay Yow Cancer Fund is a women’s cancer fund that raises [...]
February 14, 20121:19 am
Relay For Life Returns to St. Mary’s
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
On Saturday, Feb. 11, the St. Mary’s community gathered in the Michael P. O’Brien Athletic and Recreation Center (MPOARC) to show why they relay at the third Relay for Life event hosted at the college. Relay for Life is a fundraiser event that benefits the American Cancer Society and fights against all types of cancer [...]
January 31, 201212:10 am
Zombie Apocalypse According to a Chemist, Psychologist, Science Major
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
Hollywood has tried to make our worst nightmares imaginable for years, but on Wednesday, Jan. 25, Assistant Professor of Chemistry Leah Eller, Assistant Professor of Psychology Scott Mirabile, and senior Chemistry and Biology double major Steven Rees all joined forces to tell the scenarios of a real life zombie apocalypse. In the first Natural Science [...]
February 14, 20121:03 am
Season Preview: Men And Women’s Tennis
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
Coming off a 2-2 fall session, the women’s tennis team starts up their spring season on Saturday, Feb. 18 at Bowie State University. Beating the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and Chowan Universtiy, but falling to Catholic University and Susquehanna University in the fall, the women Seahawks are preparing to begin play again in [...]
January 31, 201212:03 am
Swimming Excited For CAC Championships
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
Finishing up their best seasons in recent history, both men’s and women’s swimming are going into the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC) Championships with confidence. While the men’s team ended their season 12-3 overall and 5-1 in the CAC, the women’s team went 14-1 overall and 6-0 in the conference for the first time in the [...]
December 6, 201112:17 am
Women’s Basketball Wins Game Against Stevenson 80-64
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor and Taylor Schafer, Managing 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 [...]
December 6, 201112:15 am
Club Spotlight: Seahawk Radio
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
With forty-three registered radio shows per week, the Hawk Radio is a very open atmosphere for music, which is senior and president of Hawk Radio Nick Hughes’ favorite thing about the station. “I think the best part is that anyone can have a show about anything they want. You want to do a show made [...]
November 15, 201112:27 am
St. Mary’s Lives Up to “Tree Campus USA” Title by Planting More Trees
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
Living up to St. Mary’s College’s recent approval as a Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation, Lesley Urgo, a member of St. Mary’s Arboretum Association, along with 21 students and community members planted 19 trees around campus on Thursday, Nov. 10. According to L. Urgo, the group broke up into three teams for [...]
November 15, 201112:26 am
Club Spotlight: Volleyball
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
Some of us play barefoot, some of us played in high school, some of us have never played before, and all of us just come to have fun. Every Monday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and Thursday from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., the club volleyball team meets in the recreation courts of the [...]
November 15, 201112:20 am
“Bag It” Urges Bagging Plastic Use
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
Sorry Barbie, but it turns out that a life in plastic is not so fantastic after all. On Wednesday, Nov. 9 in Cole Cinema, the Center for Study of Democracy, the League of Women Voters, and the Environmental Studies Department co-sponsored the showing of “Bag It,” a documentary by Jeb Berrier that investigates plastics and [...]
November 15, 201112:19 am
Secor Explains Marine Fish Migration
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
Continuing the Natural Science and Mathematics (NS&M) Colloquium series this semester, David Secor came to St. Mary’s to discuss “Migration Ecology of Marine Fishes,” on Wednesday, Nov. 9 in Schaefer Hall. Secor is a University of Maryland Regents Professor at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, where he teaches graduate courses on fisheries ecology, science [...]
November 15, 201112:14 am
Student Programming to Board the Sea Voyager
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
St. Mary’s own semester at sea has become the new normal on campus. With that new normal, the Residence Life and Student Activities offices are joining forces to begin programming on the newest campus dorm, the Sea Voyager. Though bigger programs are soon to come, according to Director of Residence Life Joanne Goldwater, some programs [...]
November 15, 201112:01 am
Boatlife: The Good, the Bad, and the Voyage
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
I almost forget what it’s like to live in a normal St. Mary’s dorm. For the past three and a half weeks, in case you’ve been anywhere in the world without a local newspaper, I and 350 other students living in both Caroline and Prince George’s Residence Halls have been temporarily trying out some other [...]
