Matthew Othus

Staff writer

On Monday, April 16th 2012, Helen Whitney visited Roanoke’s Campus to give a talk about her award-winning documentary, “Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero.”  Helen Whitney is an Emmy award-winning director and producer having produced over ten documentaries in over 30 years. Whitney has also visited the campuses of Yale and [...]

Nathaniel Rioux

Staff Writer

Any student who has passed by the Colket Center on a typical afternoon will often hear the sounds of music or a talk show playing out over the quad for anyone to hear. And while the origin of the music is relatively known as that little corner room on the second [...]

Nathaniel Rioux

Staff Writer

The Roanoke College Maroons, men’s lacrosse team continued their winning streak Wednesday in Lexington, VA against Washington and Lee, but only by a slim margin. With a final score of 14-12 the Maroons advance to 8-3 overall this season, winning their fourth straight game. But the win was not easy.

Joey [...]

Nathaniel Rioux

Business Manager/Staff Writer

With a little more than a month to go until the end of the school year most students are looking forward to finals and being on the beach. While most students are thinking about beaches and summer jobs, the college is already preparing for next year’s classes and before students [...]

Sarah Whitten

Editor in chief

Nearly six years after the worst college shooting in history, a jury deemed Virginia Tech negligent in their reaction to the events of April 16th. After two students were murdered in a residence hall the university waited more than two hours to notify the campus of the shooting. The case [...]

Andrew Dittmar

Staff writer

On March 15th, Roanoke College welcomed actress Mary Badham to campus, co-sponsored by the 2012 Women’s Forum and the Turk Pre-Law Program.

Badham, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, achieved international recognition as Scout, the daughter of Atticus Finch, in the groundbreaking 1962 film “To Kill a Mockingbird”, was welcomed by an [...]

Andrew Dittmar

Staff writer

On March 2nd, 10 Roanoke College students, accompanied by Chaplain Paul Henrickson, departed on Habitat for Humanity’s annual spring break trip to Columbia, South Carolina.

The trip was admittedly different from traditional Habitat expeditions. Thanks to some red tape relating to land codes, as well as a smaller group of students, [...]

Taylor Robertson

Staff writer

The weekend of February 10-12, 32 students from InterVarsity, a non-denominational Christian organization on campus, attended the 2012 Winter Conference.  The conference was held at Rockbridge Alum Springs, a Young Life camp, in Goshen, Virginia.  There were 412 students from the University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, James Madison University, Washington and [...]

Nathaniel Rioux

Staff writer

In an effort to stop the funding of organized crime in a global economy, the United States on Thursday moved to block multiple international crime leaders from the country’s financial market. The names of the blocked leaders include many prominent leaders in such crime syndicates as the famed Japanese Yakuza.

According [...]

Kaitlyn Bell

Staff writer

            During Honors Conference Week, Honors Program students planned several exciting events for their peers to enjoy. One of the most inspirational lectures that were planned was given by a visitor named Lisa Goodwin, who shared her story and encouraged RC students to do something [...]