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Hollins Columns (2005 May 4), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Retiring Faculty Bring About Academic Changes
• A compilation of senior projects, thesis and papers
• Senior Hilary DuBose creates community garden
• Hollins Alum killed in Murder-Suicide
• New study abroad program offered in Argentina
• New director of dining services, Janett Russell, arrives on campus
• The "Goombah" program begins search of student mentors
• Theater department undergoes a variety of changes
• Mayfest brings rocking bands to campus
• Senior Wills '05!
• A Grand Ol' Time at the Grandin: "Les Choristes" & "Melinda and Melinda"
• Dear Editor: Rising tuitions and the three-year program - a direct correlation
• Goodbye sophomore year, goodbye class of …

Mtv: Sounds Of A Generation, Amanda Evens

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Hollins Columns (2005 Apr 20), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Alum and acclaimed golfer chosen as commencement speaker
• Photo chemicals no longer to be dumped down the drain
• With the Club Coordinator's resignation, position to be revamped
• A changed ADA comes back on campus
• SGA Elections and Appointment Results
• Tinker Day Spring '05!
• General Speakers Bureau chair brought diverse group of speakers to campus
• Full Frame Festival a success
• A review of the hard-to-find film "Prozac Nation": more praise please
• Catch the pitch, you'll get the fever
• Off the shelf: Thoughts on poetry
• Nobody said finding a summer job was easy, but should it really be this …

Hollins Columns (2005 Apr 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Mysterious 35 foot dildo discovered on front quad
• Top 10 ways to save Hollins University's financial crisis:
• Squirrels seize the school
• "Honor" award bestows employment casualties
• Roommate slain on campus
• Hollins PR has local men join sports teams
• Lisa Bower, wipe my ass!
• The gossip corner -- keep it on the down low
• Scientists discover "super-tapeworm!"
• Just who the heck is I.N. Cognito?

Hollins Columns (2005 Mar 30), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Batten Program still evolving in its third year
• Michael Mansfield, director of media services resigns
• Professor and her students bring recycling back to campus
• First Viewpoints student art show is a success
• ADA's on the campus, ADA's on the scene: The early days of ADA
• Dear Editors: Reports of our death are greatly exaggerated
• Mrs. Congeniality 2 and Robots: Sentimental and humor-filled flicks worth seeing
• Regin Spektor: A venus of the indie rock world
• Dear Editor: Confederate flag draws response from Diversity Initiative Advisory Board
• Melissa Larkin, fencer, named Athlete of the Week

Congress, Mcgwire, And Steroids, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

For those of us who spent a significant part of our professional time and energy in the study of the 1950s, the current hysteria over steroids in the House of Representatives evokes definite historical memories. For some of us it even recalls memories of childhood when "Point of Order Mr. Chairman" was shouted across the schoolyard. This is not to equate the hearings of the House Committee on steroids in baseball, with Sen. Joseph McCarthy's hearings on Communists in government. It is however meant to draw some parallels and raise some questions.

Hollins Columns (2005 Mar 9), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Administration, students, and senate disagree over club sports
• Three new M.F.A. programs created
• J-Term analyzed through comparisons with other colleges
• First batch of creative writing M.F.A. students to graduate
• International Women's Day honored by Women's Studies department and students
• Juried Art Show displays student work
• Founder's Day 2005
• Students join nation-wide trend of abusing prescription drugs
• Colon Cancer Awareness Month recognized on campus
• Dana Weir scheduled to read her work during literary festival
• Out to the Movies with Hope and Cathleen
• "Sideways" cast deserves more recognition
• Off the shelf: thoughts on literature
• Dear editor: The ALBUM's staff …

John Chaney, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Over the past week I have been looking for the time to write about the incident involving John Chaney. I have also been thinking about the incident and trying to clarify my thoughts on the matter. The more I think and the more time passes I find myself with less clarity, rather than more clarity on the matter.

Hollins Columns (2005 Feb 21), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Professor search creates division
• Nancy Gray on a personal level
• Professor Tumas Serna retires after 17 years
• New changes to Dining Services: Gerard prepares departure
• CBS VP, Marcy McGinnis, shares her journalistic experiences with students
• J-Term, retention: a direct correlation?
• A condensed history of Cargoes
• Off the shelf: thoughts on literature
• Out to the movies with Hope and Cathleen
• Dear Editor: "Album" obscenities are not art
• Don't be a "Mean Girl": stop starting drama
• Still taking sides?: one yankee's thoughts
• Long-time fencing coach, Lynette Ware, retires

The Nhl's Lost Season, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

As demonstrated yesterday with the sad attempt to resurrect the hockey season, the differences between owners and players is greater than a few million dollars of salary cap or the personalities of Gary Bettman and Bob Goodenow. As usual the press oversimplified things and any number of people, including Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux, fell for their lazy analysis. This is a war, not a collective bargaining process.

Canseco And Steroids, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The appearance by Jose Canseco on CBS's "Sixty Minutes," and the publication of his book Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big has called forth another round of hypocrisy in the official and unofficial world of baseball. It is difficult to determine any winner in the hypocrisy sweepstakes, as the competition is stiff.

Million Dollar Baby (Spoiler Warning!), Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

I will start today with a warning, something that perhaps I should do more often. The subject today is the film "Million Dollar Baby." If you have not seen the film and intend to see it you may want to stop reading now. Reading this will reveal things you don't want to know before you see the film.

Max Schmeling, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The death of Max Schmeling on Friday has been much commented upon over the past few days. I take this to be a recognition of the significance of this man and the memories he evokes around the world. For Americans these memories center on his relationship, both personal and athletic, with Joe Louis.

Super Bowl Hype, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale once claimed that if Jesus were alive today he would be at the Super Bowl.

The Australian Open, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It is the week before the week before the Super Bowl. The beauty of the week is that there is no football, a relief after the emotional roller coaster of the three weeks of playoff football, ten games played at an intensity level worthy of brain surgery. It is a perfect time for a change of pace; the perfect time for a little tennis. Thus the Australian Open, the first grand slam event of the year, this year celebrating its 100th Anniversary.

Sport And War Don't Mix, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

The Army-Navy football game this year opened when the President of the United States tossed a coin brought in from Fallujah for the ceremony. Much to my surprise there was little comment on the coin, or the story of what led to it being chosen for such an honor. Clearly what we have here is another mixing of the idols of war and the idols of the playing field, a potent mix in many quarters. Teddy Roosevelt found football appealing as a candidate to serve as James' "Moral Equivalent of War," as have many others over the past century. He …

The Ncaa Winter Meetings, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Early January following the conclusion of the money collection phase of college football season comes the time when the NCAA holds its annual meetings. This invariably results in a deluge of unreality from the President of the benighted organization and some futile gestures of reform flowing from the meeting halls. Meanwhile in the corridors and backrooms the real work of protecting and expanding the revenue streams proceeds unimpeded.

New Year's Nonsense, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

As the calendar turns over from 2004 to 2005 we are back where we were a year ago with the BCS. Once again the "C" has been removed. At the end of the regular season there were five undefeated college football teams. In the meticulously constructed world of the BCS only two of those five teams played each other in bowl games negating the claim of a national championship although there certainly is a BCS champion.

Bowl Games, Peyton Manning, Reggie White, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It seems to me that the parade of bowl games has become endless. It's as if there has been some creeping growth over the past several years forming bowl games in the same way kudzu expands on its own in warm humid climates. What once was the Twelve Nights of Bowl Games has turned into the National Football Coaches Bowl Game Telethon sponsored by the National Association of Insomniacs.

Lack Of Diversity In College Sports Leadership, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It was a month ago that my colleagues at the University of Central Florida in the Institute for the Study of Diversity and Ethics in Sport issued a fascinating report on the lack of diversity in leadership positions in Higher Education. One of the conclusions of the study is that this lack of diversity may contribute to the same lack of diversity in Division I Football Head Coaching positions. The conclusion seems more than likely, indeed even self-evident.

Hollins Columns (2004 Dec 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Budget cuts cause confusion for spring classes
• Forming new clubs proves difficult for some students
• Search for a new dean of students continues
• Library shelves become less crowded as more books go missing
• Various community service organizations offered on campus
• German department disolution rumors prove untrue
• Cargoes contest invites nationwide literary submissions
• Hollins community expands to online journal
• Sound-off: What are your thoughts on campus safety?
• My four wishes for Hollins during the Chrismukkah season
• Dear Editors: Walking provides nice alternative to driving
• Dear Editors: Moody administration enforces an all too stringent food policy
• Surviving crunch week: …

Ty Willingham, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Welcome back to the bizarre world of intercollegiate athletics. The news this week comes out of Notre Dame and several other institutions of higher learning where football coaches are fired with reckless abandon. A few weeks ago we saw the spectacle of the public humiliation of Ron Zook at the University of Florida. This week the big news is the public humiliation of Ty Willingham by the acolytes of purity at the University of Notre Dame.

The Nfl And Its Money, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Now that the NFL has refocused following Towelgate in the midst of what is developing as a most interesting season on the field, it might be worth going back to two stories that flew just beneath the radar over the past few weeks. These, of course, involved money, because we are talking about the NFL Money Machine, which continues to validate Al Davis' wisdom from 1978 when he noted in the wake of a lucrative television contract that "any dummy can make money operating a pro football club."

Thanksgiving, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

(As with all American traditions if it happened once or twice it is one. Therefore I present my traditional Thanksgiving piece) The History of Thanksgiving and of Football both go back into the Middle Ages, and so it may not be so strange that the two would become intertwined in modern America.

The Palace Brawl, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It really is not the end of Civilization as we know it.

Nicollette Sheridan Bares All, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

Attention Hypocrites! Your future is in the executive suites of television networks and the officialdom of the National Football League. The only requirement is that you have the ability to make self-righteous pronouncements about public morality and taste while maintaining your composure and never once betraying yourself with so much as a hint of a smile. Even, the now fashionable smirk, will not be tolerated. If you get really good at this and have a relative in the cabinet you might even be appointed to head the FCC.

Hollins Columns (2004 Nov 15), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Horizon program celebrates 30th anniversary
• Hollins Christian Fellowship looks for new pastor
• Hollins Outdoor Program looks for new adventures
• Students participate in Appalachia service project
• M.F.A. students published in literary magazines
• Down but not out: Clinton/Obama in 2008
• Dear Editors: This is an angry letter
• Sophomore year: stuck in the middle
• Reverend Hale '75 visits campus
• Swim team dives into another good season

Maurice Clarett And The Osu Scandals, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It has been an amazing fall season, not only for the Red Sox saga but also considering the eerie quiet on the college football scene. The usual run of assaults, petty thefts, sexual misconduct cases, drug charges, and weapons possession cases have been as rare as football victories for the University of Central Florida.

Hollins Columns (2004 Nov 1), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Another women's college gone - Wells goes co-ed
• Senior Appreciation Program goals seem hard to attain
• HAB aids GSB search for new speakers
• On air: HUTV created
• Senior Appreciation
• S.R.L.A. offers weekly conversations about various religions to students
• Students participate in Appalachia service project
• S.H.A.R.E. Olympiad raise money for local soup kitchen
• Circle K, the new community service club on-campus
• T.H.U.G.S. to perform around Roanoke Valley
• Author David Sedaris reads to sold out audience at Roanoke's Jefferson Center
• Tinker Day!: What rain?
• Taking a walk down memory lane, TV style
• A lesson from the 2004 Boston Red …

The Curse Expires, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

You knew that if it ever happened it would have to be in spectacular fashion. Something as intractable as "The Curse of the Bambino" would not fall by some common or mundane means. It could only end by a fierce assault on history.