It started with an idea by Daisy Weill ('10) and cooperation between Swem library and the Student Assembly to make it possible: a 24-hour library during final exams. Most students have all heard stories about students nobly "holding down" study rooms for days at a time, using google doc schedules assigning shifts to members of their study groups. (0) comments
This semester, The Virginia Informer will proudly celebrate our five year anniversary and begin weekly printing. The Informer is one of the largest independent newspapers in the country, and is ever growing in both our scope and our influence. We are, as my predecessor Steven Nelson wrote, "stronger than ever. (0) comments
At the beginning of last semester I wrote an editorial regarding our Honor Council. In it I described a series of concerns that I had with the conduct of the Council. I compared their electoral system to that of Iran. I also wrote that students were beginning to consider abolishing the Council. (0) comments
The College's operating budget has been slashed four times in the last 13 months due to cuts in state funding. House bill 732, currently on the docket, would require that 75% of the student body be from the state of Virginia, causing a loss of $9 million dollars in revenue to the College. (0) comments
Well, fellow students, the sun has finally decided to grace us with its presence after one night of unprecedented and uncharacteristic snow in our humble town of Williamsburg. Yes, I suppose I prefer the campus to be dusted with snow as opposed to flooded by stagnant swamp water, but walking down an iced-over Richmond road on the way to work this morning was made extremely unpleasant by the snowy surprise. (0) comments
