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PBTV: VT Women's Club Lacrosse Heads To Nationals
By Neal Turnage
Executive Editor
April 30, 2008
Virginia Tech's women's club lacrosse team is headed to the national championship in Denver. They will take on Pittsburgh in the first round of the tournament. Neal Turnage talks with the team to see how they are preparing for the big tournament.
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PBTV: VT Women's Club Lacrosse Heads To Nationals
Reflections From Students Studying Abroad on April 16 Perspective comes from many angles. Isaac Barnes was studying in Rabat, Morocco when he learned of the school shootings last April. As a Virginia Tech student studying abroad, Barnes’ world immediately stopped as thoughts of classmates and friends rushed through his head. “Initially I saw that it had taken place in Norris Hall, and I kind of relaxed a bit because I thought that was mostly an engineer building,” said Barnes, an international studies major. “Then on Tuesday morning, I saw that Madame Couture-Nowak was one of the people who didn’t make it out, and suddenly being so far away was difficult.” Speaker Connects Faith and Science There is historical and scientific evidence that God created the universe and Jesus Christ was resurrected, according to Dr. David Kingston. Kingston, the final speaker in the Graduate Life Center Speaker Series, spoke on April 25 on “The Faith of a Scientist in the Rain Forest.” The GLC Speaker Series is a weekly event open to the community, which allows graduate and faculty researchers to share their career stories and research passions. Kingston joined the Virginia Tech Department of Chemistry in 1971. Flying Towards Her Dreams: An Interview With Felicia Lee At the age of 15, Felicia Lee has already accomplished what many young swimmers can only dream of. Lee holds numerous State, YMCA, Zone and National Age Group records. She is a two-time National Champion in the women’s 100 butterfly. In 2006, she qualified for the 2007 USA Swimming’s National Junior Team. PBTV: Hokie Hookup
72 Hour New Play Festival: A Showcase of New Playwrights If you had the opportunity to see the beginning works of the world’s upcoming famous playwrights, wouldn’t you want to be a part of the magic? Virginia Tech’s MFA in creative writing program and the department of theatre arts have collaborated to make that possible with their “72 Hour New Play Festival”, a free event starting this weekend in the Performing Arts Building (PAB) on campus. This festival is of utmost importance to MFA student playwrights. “Young playwrights get to work with professional directors. Plays don't really exist, alone, on the page. They don't come to life until actors read the roles and directors participate in the shaping of the story,” said Edward Falco, professor of the MFA graduate workshops responsible for the works of the festival. Film, Panel Aimed At Stem Cell Research Political, scientific, moral, and religious issues continue to fuel the evolving climate of the controversial debate over stem cell research. Students and members of the Virginia Tech and Blacksburg community recently attended a screening of “Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognito,”,\ a documentary made by award winning filmmaker Maria Finitzo. The screening of the film was held at the Lyric Theatre in downtown Blacksburg. The documentary was followed by discussion by a panel of Virginia Tech faculty members and the filmmaker Finitzo. Transportation Institute Again Opens Its House To Area Schools The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) hosted its semi-annual School Day Open House Wednesday. Known for its research in improving roads here in the Commonwealth and the nation, the Institute welcomed over 300 students out to the facilities. The first group of students to tour the facilities, 100 fourth graders from Penn Forest Elementary in Roanoke, seemed excited to see what goes on at the Institute. The group was divided into groups of about 30 and taken to different stations throughout the building. |
Blacksburg Stuck with the Check As a semester comes to a close at Virginia Tech, students call home to their parents begging for more money as their meal card runs near empty. As the seasons go by, residents in Blacksburg complain to council members and local government for cleaner and safer streets. As a result, the Blacksburg Town Council unanimously passed an ordinance that will increase the meals tax to 6 percent beginning July 1 when the new budget goes into effect. It is estimated that the increase will generate nearly $500,000 annually for the town. So after years of debate between the university and the town, Blacksburg is stuck with the check. Let’s Get Ready To RUMBLE! Welcome to the wonderful world of political boxing. This week we’ll be looking at two presidential hopefuls in what is bound to be an exciting round of meaningless verbal attacks, idiotic staged media events, and creative, yet wacky accusations as these two go head-to-head in a dog-eat-dog battle for that Oval office. In this corner, weighing in at 170 pounds we have Senator Barack Obama – wide eyed, bushy tailed, and ready to fight tooth and nail. And in the other corner, weighing in at – wait, should we tell her weight? Anyway, there’s Senator Hillary Clinton ready to “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee” in order to re-gain that master bedroom in the White House she’s missed ever so much. Album Review: Sans Exclamation Point, Panic Impress
Pretty. Odd. however, is a pleasant surprise. You can certainly see the influence. The album opener, “We’re So Starving” has a Sgt. Pepper’s feel to it as the band apologizes for the layoff between albums and loudly proclaims “You don’t have to worry/ We’re still the same band.” Commentarty: A Stain Too Deep To Be Green-Washed MTV pushing their environmental programming is like every idiot skater kid wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt. He knows no more about tenets of Marxist philosophy than he does about astrophysics, but it doesn’t stop him from suckling at the diluted cultural teat of the revolutionary icon to fuel his adolescent rebellion. NHL Playoffs: Second Round The second round matchups are set in stone after a few game sevens. We saw perhaps the best rivalry renewed, in Boston and Montreal, with Montreal prevailing in seven. We saw Alexander Ovechkin come so close to bringing his team to the second round, losing in overtime in the seventh game. We saw Sidney Crosby sweep the Senators with no problem. The good news is: it can only get better. In the Eastern Conference, Montreal, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the New York Rangers are left, which bodes well for the NHL. Having the New York market and maybe the most popular NHL franchise in Montreal in the second round must be making NHL commissioner Gary Bettman see dollar signs. The Western Conference brings us a rivalry renewed in Detroit and Colorado. The matchups in the 90s and early 00s were so intense and fierce. Then there is the most overlooked matchup – San Jose vs. Dallas – two teams that know each other very well being division rivals. Sports fans buckle your harnesses and keep your arms in the train at all times. It’s going to be a hell of a ride. Auburn Professor Presents His Program For Diversity The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that affirmative action may no longer be used when determining applicants for universities. It is fear that diversity will no longer be achieved in our nation’s universities. How do we maintain diversity without racial and gender preferences? The answer may be found in Professor Juan E. Gilbert’s computer software program that will enable school’s to generate a more diverse class. He recently delivered a speech, “Achieving Diversity in the New Affirmative Action Era,” in Squires that focused on addressing the issue with holistic approaches. Mustache Bash Ranked High On Blacksburg's Must-Do Events Food? Check. Music? Check. Mustaches? Not exactly the first thing you’d think of for the biggest local concert of the year, but that’s exactly what makes the Mustache Bash one of the best things to attend in Blacksburg. “I went last year, but the turn out this year has been incredible!” said Virginia Tech sophomore Katie DeMoss. For those who don’t know, the Mustache Bash is an event that happens every year, now in its fourth season, based entirely upon glorifying the mustache. Everyone shows up with a mustache, whether it’s fake or real. People and Places: West End Market West End Market is one of Virginia Tech’s most notable dining facilities. During its operating hours West End is bustling with hungry students and faculty and during its busiest hours it is not unusual to see lines more than 20 people long and students with plates looking for a table to open up. If the dining facility is so busy, why do people continue to come? Students and faculty come because of the convenient location for a majority of freshmen, the wide variety of food options, and the overall quality of the dining services provided. Read more | Comments (0) |
When advance reviews of Panic at the Disco’s new album Pretty. Odd. Began surfacing, many lauded the album, and built up dangerous hype, with many making comparisons to the Beatles. I feared for the album because no one can equal the Beatles, and imitators no matter how talented, always fall short.