Posts by: The Brackety-Ack
Roanoke Rising Campaign
by Meagan Cole
Everyone in the Roanoke College community knew something big was coming to campus when one of the biggest white tents and a dance floor appeared on the Back Quad one week before Alumni Weekend. As the weekend approached, rumors were circulating and videos were encouraging as the tent became [...]
Continue Reading →On Wednesday afternoon an email was sent out from President Maxey that put a lot of people on campus in shock. The Bittle Tree that currently stands on Roanoke College’s front quad has to be removed. After being hit by lightning several times as well as being infected with disease the tree has reached its [...]
Continue Reading →Benefit Concert In Honor of Kelsey Daniel
by Meagan Cole
“On November 16th, I seized during a musical at Roanoke College. I was taken by ambulance to Lewis Gale ER where a MRI showed a spot on the right side of my brain. After further discussion with [the] doctors, it was decided that surgery was [...]
Continue Reading →Car Club Races to Raise Money
by Meagan Cole
Members of the Roanoke College Car Club are teaming up with the Sports Car Club of America, specifically the Blue Ridge Region, for a race unlike any other. Drivers from across the state will be entered to race a series of laps designated by traffic cones [...]
Continue Reading →April 15th seemed like any other day around the world, but Americans are unfortunately familiar with how drastically that can change in the face of terrorism. This evil lurked in the shadows of Boston’s department stores as thousands of participants of all ages ran the Boston Marathon. The race is annually held on Patriot’s Day [...]
Continue Reading →Dear Dr. P,
I recently saw an article saying that oral sex causes oral cancer. How can this be true? It seems to be a scare tactic invented by sexual puritans.
Dear concerned.
It is both true and scary.
I too saw the article that clearly stated that oral sex was now the main [...]
Continue Reading →Dear Sue,
One of my friends acts really racist. It ranges from well-known racist jokes to full blown racist comments. I don’t mind the jokes, because we occasionally have unofficial “worst jokes you can think of” contest. And, in that context, it’s not bad, but she does it all the time and will make degrading [...]
Continue Reading →By Meagan Cole
One of the most evocative TRC productions since The Laramie Project five years ago, Tony Kushner’s Slavs! opened to the public this week. The play ran its first night on Wednesday, April 10th after a month of preparation, but the audience would never have known just by seeing the actors perform. Thanks [...]
Continue Reading →Off-Broadway, On Campus
Christy Blevins
Tunes from hit Broadway shows filled Bast Gym on Saturday, April 6, as the Oriana singers, and the Roanoke College Choir performed in Off-Broadway, On Campus.
Bast Gym was filled with students, future students of RC, friends and family. The Broadway tunes and theatrics fully entertained the audience members. Many [...]
Continue Reading →Radiant Color Run
Christy Blevins
A large amount of students lined up on the Athletic quad on Sunday, April 7, to participate in the school wide Radiant Color Run.
The Radiant Color Run was organized by a number of students as a group project for HHP 221. It was also held as an event for [...]
Continue Reading →Want to increase the value of your Roanoke degree?
Roanoke is ranked as one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. One of the factors for receiving these rankings is alumni participation and the number of alumni gifts. As Roanoke’s alumni participation increases, the reputation of the College increases, [...]
Continue Reading →Graduation Cord Changes Cause Upset
by Meagan Cole
Graduation is one of the greatest moments in a person’s life, because it’s meant to reward the countless hours put in to accomplishing goals both in academia as well as extracurricular organizations. However, Roanoke College has recently announced changes to the latter recognition in the form of [...]
Continue Reading →Sarah Barb
Relay for Life: Uniting for a cause
This year’s Relay for Life brought back some familiar traditions and ramped up the event a notch. Attended by 40 teams and two bands, Relay was bigger than ever before. Part of Colleges against Cancer, Roanoke College has been doing the American Cancer Society’s Relay for [...]
Continue Reading →Pi Kappa Phi Philanthropy Week Serves
by Meagan Cole
Pi Kappa Phi is one of the social Greek fraternities affiliated with Roanoke College that strive for excellence through leadership and community service. In particular, these brothers are strong advocates for Push America, their national, philanthropic, non-profit organization that gives back to those with disabilities. Together, [...]
Continue Reading →Faculty Spotlight
Emily Sierra Poertner
Every year a few new faculty members join the Roanoke College community. In the fall of 2012, Dr. Jesse Bucher was among the new professors here. He is a member of the history department teaching African studies. After finishing his Ph. D. at the University of Minnesota he spent time [...]
Continue Reading →Student Spotlight
Shannon Allen
This week’s student spotlight is atypical to others in that two students of Roanoke College are being featured. Shana Hensley and Alex Tarasidis have recently been highlighted as the Greek and Pan-Hellenic women of the month. This is a new program to motivate ladies within the Greek life at Roanoke [...]
Continue Reading →Our Maroons softball team, which is ranked 16th in the nation, is currently on a seven game winning streak after splitting the games of a double header against Virginia Intermont College at the beginning of last week, and then sweeping both Emory & Henry on 4/3, Shenandoah University on 4/6, and Sweet Briar College on [...]
Continue Reading →After starting the season 1-2, with disappointing losses to Mary Washington and Dickinson, the Maroons have responded winning nine of their last ten games. Maroons were disappointed, it was the first time the Lacrosse team had a losing record since 2008 and the first time being ranked outside the top-20 since the same year.
With [...]
Continue Reading →The free tailgate held by the SGA on Wednesday, April 3rd could not have fallen on a better day. Sunny Salem finally lived up to its nickname as the women’s lacrosse team took on Sweet Briar College, and the men’s team faced Shenandoah University. There was not a cloud in the sky and the seventy-degree [...]
Continue Reading →Roanoke’s men’s tennis went one for three this week in ODAC play, defeating Randolph College on the 5th, losing to Virginia Wesleyan on the 6th, and then dropping the match against Emory & Henry on the 10th. The Maroons beat Randolph by a score of 8-1. In doubles play, James Lee and Matt Kessler defeated [...]
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