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Vixens Take ODAC Reserve Championship, Set Sights on ANRC Nationals
The Sweet Briar Vixens are the 2009 Old Dominion Athletic Conference reserve champions and saw three team members receive all-conference honors at the ODAC Equestrian Championship on Saturday, April 10 at Hollins University in Roanoke.
‘Very large and very loud’ Instrument to Highlight Gager Concert
What’s five feet long, has strings and can wake up a dorm full of students? According to Sweet Briar College music professor Rebecca McCord, it’s a guzheng, an ancient Chinese instrument that’s the highlight of the fourth and final event of the 2008-2009 Janet Lowrey Gager Community Concert Series.
Environmental Science Major Hosts Meeting in Hometown
Sweet Briar College senior Heather Riggleman will host a town hall meeting, “Focusing on our Energy Future,” from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, April 16 at the Carver-Price Cultural Center, located at 106 Patricia Lane in Appomattox, Va.
Bands Battle at SBC April 17
Sweet Briar’s Business Management Lab will host the Battle of the Bands from 7:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. on Friday, April 17 on the College’s dell.
Sweet Briar’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ Opens Art Show April 17
An art exhibition of works by students in the Sweet Briar College studio arts senior seminar opens Friday, April 17 in Pannell Gallery with an artists’ reception from 5 to 7 p.m.
Wassell to Speak at L.C. Symposium
Steve Wassell, professor of mathematics at Sweet Briar College, will speak Saturday, April 25 at a daylong symposium sponsored jointly by Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest and Lynchburg College.
‘Eyes Wide Open’ Exhibit on Display at Sweet Briar
“Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of War in Iraq,” will be on display from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 15 through Saturday, April 18 on the Upper Quad in front of Sweet Briar College’s Memorial Chapel. Admission is free.
Students Inducted into Spanish Honor Society
Sweet Briar students Allison Garrison ’10, of Shipman, Va., and Emily Serba ’09, of Waynesboro, Va., were recently inducted into the Rho Omega Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society.
SBC Naturalist-in-Residence Talks about AT Adventures
At 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 13, Sweet Briar College’s naturalist-in-residence, Mike Hayslett will present, “Mountaintop Summer: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail.”
Students Participate in MS Walk
Twelve Sweet Briar students — dubbed Team Sweet Feet — participated March 29 in Charlottesville’s 2009 MS Walk. The event was hosted by the Blue Ridge Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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