Features Section
April 3, 201212:17 am
Campus Celebrates Diversity with Multicultural Week
By Allison Kight, Assistant Editor
From Monday, March 26 to Saturday March 31, St. Mary’s celebrated cultural diversity on campus through Multicultural Week, organized by the DeSousa-Brent Scholars. Through various events and activities, the week aimed to, “promote cultural diversity on campus through different events and activities in order for people to learn about one another, different cultures, and countries,” [...]
April 3, 201212:16 am
Navy SEAL Explores the Cost of Killing
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
On March 20, the Philosophy Club gathered in Margaret Brent Hall, the new home of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, to enter into a discussion of the spiritual or karmic cost of killing other human beings. Mike McCabe, a former Navy SEAL and local resident, opened the discussion by sharing his own personal [...]
April 3, 201212:15 am
Fab Labs Bring Digital Fabrication Equipment to Labs Around the World
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
On Wednesday, March 28, the Natural Science & Mathematics Colloquium (NS&M) series continued as Dr. Rehmi Post from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Center for Bits and Atoms presented a lecture in Schaefer 106 at 4:40 p.m. on the growing phenomenon of Fab Labs. The Fab Lab project began as an inner-city outreach program [...]
April 17, 201212:10 am
Mathematical Patterns Used to Make Bracelets
By Taylor Schafer, Managing Editor
In the last Natural Science and Mathematics (NS&M) Colloquium of the spring semester series on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 11 in Schaefer 106, Susan Goldstine, Associate Professor of Mathematics at the College, spoke about her experiences with mathematical beading and the connections between math and art. Her journey started on November 3, 2008 when [...]
April 17, 201212:08 am
Old Testament Expert Questions an Angry God
By Maria Smaldone, Assistant Editor
David Lamb, an expert in the Old Testament and author of the book “God Behaving Badly,” gave a lecture based on the topic of his book on the afternoon of Thursday, April 5. The lecture was sponsored by the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), a group that Lamb himself was once a member of in his [...]
April 17, 201212:07 am
HSMC Archaeology Upgrades to New Buildings
By Allison Kight, Assistant Editor
On Friday, April 13, Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC) held the annual Archaeology Month lecture titled, “From the Trenches to the Shelves.” The lecture, which took place in the Visitor’s Center auditorium, was made up of three parts: Chief Archaeologist Dr. Timothy Riordan gave an update on the 2011 excavations around the Calvert House during [...]
April 17, 201212:06 am
Phillips Explores Art of the Inca from South Africa
By Monique Thompson, Staff Writer
On April 3, Ruth Anne Phillips, a visiting Professor of Art History, discussed Inca architectural sites located in Peru. Her lecture, entitled “Inca Stone in the Round: Performative Boulders and Wise Water,” described the research she has done with Inca sites in and surrounding Machu Picchu. Phillips began her lecture, given in the library, by [...]
April 3, 201212:14 am
Baseball and National Identity in Taiwan
By Darya Baugh-Ruschman, Staff Writer
On Friday, March 23, professor and the chair of the History Department at California Polytechnic State University, Dr. Andrew Morris gave a lecture about baseball and national identity in Taiwan entitled, “They Told Us We Were Not Japanese and Not Chinese Either: Baseball and National Identity in Taiwan.” The lecture was jointly sponsored by the [...]
April 3, 201212:13 am
Annual WGSX Colloquium Discusses Worldwide Issue of HIV/AIDS
By Monique Thompson, Staff Writer
This year’s Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGSX) colloquium titled: “Going Viral: 30 Years of Living with HIV/AIDS” focused on individuals affected by HIV/AIDS and how the virus is a worldwide issue. The colloquium, which took place from March 19 to March 23, began with a film screening of “The Other City.” The documentary provided a [...]
April 3, 201212:12 am
College Speaker Describes HIV Vaccine Progress, Roadblocks
By Steve Rees, Former Managing Editor
In a lecture on March 21 to College students and faculty, National Institute of Health (NIH) Vaccine Branch researcher Marjorie Robert-Guroff, Ph.D., discussed the history, vaccine trials, and treatment roadblocks of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS, in her lecture “Developing Vaccines for HIV/AIDS: Challenges and Prospects.” AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency [...]
April 3, 201212:12 am
Nonmarital Childbirth: Positive or Negative for the Child?
By Anna Davis, Former Features Editor
On Friday, March 23, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University Rebecca Ryan visited St. Mary’s to present her lecture entitled, “Nonmarital Childbirth and Child Development: The Relevance of Marriage Propensity and Family Change.” She discussed how children born with or without parents differ in how they are affected by changes in family structure. “There has [...]
April 3, 201212:11 am
Adler and Rabinowitz Fight Viciously Over Latke, Hamantaschen
By Hannah Grabenstein, Editor-in-Chief
The debate is timeless and seemingly unending (well, maybe not timeless but it’s certainly entertaining): which traditional Jewish food is better, the latke or the hamantaschen? On March 26 while students munched on hamantaschen and drank grape juice, Associate Professor of Physics Chuck Adler and Director of the Library and Media Center Celia Rabinowitz attempted [...]
April 3, 201212:10 am
Rock Climbers Defy Gravity at Friction Fest
By Anna Davis, Former Features Editor
On Saturday, March 31, St. Mary’s annual spring rock climbing competition, Friction Fest, was held at the Michael P. O’Brien Athletics and Recreation Center (ARC). Kids, students, and non-students alike competed on Saturday to earn top scores in the various climbing divisions. “[Friction Fest] has been going on for six years, since the wall’s been [...]
