College Republicans, Young Democrats Unite At SBC

By Amanda K. Ryan `10, STAFF WRITER

The first Tuesday in November draws citizens of the United States to nearby schools and polling areas to vote for candidates to represent them either locally and nationally. Every four years, candidates for the President of the United States are listed on the ballot. This year, the incumbent President, George W. Bush, cannot be re-elected.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, only 126 million of the 142 million registered voters said that they cast their ballot in the 2004 Presidential Election. At this time, there were 197 million citizens eligible to vote; of those ages 18 to 24, only 58% were registered and 47% voted.

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Farewell To One Of SBC's Finest

By Jocelyn Stephens '11, STAFF WRITER

The Sweet Briar community lost a longtime faculty member on Saturday, September 20, 2008, when Professor Karl Tamburr passed away at Lynchburg General Hospital at the age of sixty. Tamburr, a graduate of Princeton University, had been teaching in Sweet Briar’s English department for 33 years.

Tamburr, the 1993 recipient of the Student Government Association’s Excellence in Teaching Award, cultivated what many considered to be an extensive knowledge of literature throughout the medieval period during his intellectual career. He taught classes that included “The History of the English Language” and “Chaucer,” as well as wrote articles on medieval drama and mysticism. In 2007, he published The Harrowing of Hell in Medieval England, a book discussing his ideas and reflecting his scholarly research.

Many of those who knew Tamburr considered his outgoing, positive personality to be something deeply affecting and encouraging...

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Campus Makes Effort In "Going Green"

By Kat Alexander '11, STAFF WRITER

We call the initiative, as many institutions have before us, "Going Green." For our campus, the effort is particularly poignant, balancing out the familiar "Think is for Girls" admissions slogan that highlights our pink side. We often tend to get hung up on pink, defending it to anyone who dares to smear its reputation, but, as packets of daisy seeds reminded us on Founder's Day, we can't forget that "our other color is green."

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Political Face Off (2 Parts)

By Caroline Anne Sapp '09 (Part 1) CONTRIBUTING WRITER

To all of you who played the “Maverick” drinking game with Sarah Palin two weeks ago, and were so hung over you were unable to watch last Monday night’s presidential debate, you missed out on a great opportunity to play a game of “reaching across the aisle.” This was not just a phrase repeated over and over that night at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, in the latest mano-a-mano joust between Obama and McCain; it was the theme throughout the evening. The eighty undecided voters sitting in the audience watched while the candidates attempted to reach over their high chairs across the stage (aisle) and strangle one another with voting records and flip-flopping platforms.

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By Lena Morrill '11 (Part 2) CONTRIBUTING WRITER