Written by Mateo Biggs “May the Fourth” has become something akin to an international holiday, with fans across the nation celebrating the beloved “Star Wars” franchise created by George Lucas. Even if the holiday itself is informal, it does not stop the numerous fans from coming together to enjoy the “Star Wars” series and the…
Written by Joey Slusher Since 1949, with the admission of Alaska and Hawaii to the union, the United States has had a nice and even 50 states. Alaska and Hawaii closed out a long tradition of adding stars to the flag, which had been commonplace from the country’s inception as it grew to fill the…
Written by Alexis Barton As the semester is winding down, our athletes are finishing out their seasons and competing in their respective playoff tournaments. The Maroons had a busy weekend all over the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, with teams competing in men’s and women’s track and field, softball, men’s and women’s tennis, and men’s and…
Written by Joyelle Ronan I’ve found that with romantic comedy films, people tend to fall into three camps. The first being you openly love rom coms. Maybe you are a hopeless romantic. You cry when Anna says “After all, I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her” in…
Written by Devon Mitchell From April 26 to the 30, students from the Student Government Association (SGA) sat outside of the Colket Center asking students to sign the “Not Our Monument” petition to ask the City of Salem to remove a Confederate statue outside of West Hall. The statue in question is located on a…
Written by Zach Dalton This issue’s Folk of ‘Noke is doing some really spectacular things both at the college and outside of it. Everyone give a friendly Maroon welcome to Lambda’s very own and cockatoo enthusiast: Aspyn Totten! They are a senior from Tazewell, Virginia. Aspyn is involved with many things on campus, but most…
Written by Devon Mitchell On Thursday, May 29, student led organizations led a healing circle to discuss the social implications of the Derek Chauvin verdict at Roanoke College. Student leaders from BSA, HOLA, Tangles, Lambda, OMA, SGA, and the Honors Program led difficult conversations for 70 participants consisting of students and staff with the goal…
Written by Zach “Is ‘Yeet’ Still Cool?” Dalton Every generation has some sort of hip lingo that they often time use at nauseum. For our parents it was stuff like, “tubular” or “bodacious.” For Millennials it was mostly just vine quotes. For the Silent Generation it was “ .” Every…
Written by Kaelyn Spickler I am now a somewhat-freshly-22-year-old, and unless something crazy happens (which at this point it would have to be really crazy), this is my last semester writing for the Brackety-Ack. 🙁 With that, I decided it would be fun for my final column to be “22 Things…” where I can sometimes…
Written by Jasey “Bring Out the Guillotines” Roberts For those that don’t know, when I’m not disappointing my parents, I am usually working in a chain grocery store called Food Lion. I got hired at this place at the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, right when they were at their most desperate. I was…