Each year, hundreds of students participate in one of William and Mary's many service trips. Jill Olszewski ('12), a member of MANOS (Medical Aid Nicaragua: Outreach Scholarship), said in an email that service trips are "a trip, either domestic or international, where services are provided by William and Mary students that benefit the community. (0) comments
As a society, we are unkind to those who deviate too far from our norms, criticizing and ostracizing those who do, even when their actions have little or no effect on social harmony. We regularly vitiate our politicians and celebrities when they stray from the roles we assign them or defy our expectations, thoughtlessly and needlessly doing great harm to those who dare defy convention. (1) comment
Doubters might view The Men Who Stare at Goats as an attempt by Hollywood's top brass to partake in some self-deprecating humor. They're half right. Using the early stages of the Iraq War as a backdrop, Goats begins as an earnest young reporter named Robert Wilton (Ewan McGregor) finds himself running dry on material and without a wife. (1) comment
Much of the early press on Cymbals Eat Guitars's debut Why There Are Mountains has focused on just how well the band evokes '90s indie rock icons like Pavement, Built to Spill, and Modest Mouse. But, alongside The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (also released this year), Why There Are Mountains promises to be more than the sum of its influences even if it never quite delivers the way Pains did. (0) comments
The Holiday season ushers in a whole host of events: concerts, dinners, Grand Illumination, and the endless rounds of parties. December has a fashion all its own, as we pull out the glitter, the holiday dresses, and the Santa hats (and of course, the Ugly Sweaters. (0) comments
No candles, extension cords, Glade's Plug-Ins, space heaters, or Christmas trees. In the name of fire safety, those are just a few of the items Reslife does not allow students living on campus to have. Prohibited items are only the beginning of our campus's fire regulations. (0) comments
Superfreakonomics is a giant middle finger to anyone who thinks statistics can't be fun. The unlikely team of Stevens, Levitt, and Dubner is back with another look at the interesting side of economics. Not to say that regular economics isn't interesting as well (I love a good demand curve as much as the next guy), but this book focuses on the smaller picture of finding correlations where no one thought to look. (1) comment