Inspired by wages for full- and part-time employees that often fall below the national poverty line, employees of the housekeeping, Facilities Management and transportation divisions of the College have joined with Aramark employees, students and faculty members in a campaign for a living wage.

Despite exponential stock market growth and unprecedented economic expansion, wages for many hourly employees of the College, in particular those working 30 hours per week or less, remain in the vicinity of $6 to $7 per hour. Exact statistics are unavailable but many individuals with years of service receive annual wages that fall below the national poverty line, marked by those who earn $18,000 per year.

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Stands for eleven local restaurants, including Sal's by Victor, James River Pie Company, Second St. and The Cheese Shop, brought samples of their foods for students to try. Students over 21 could taste test wine from the Williamsburg Winery.

The money raised will help pay for the 10th annual Alan Bukzin Bone Marrow Drive, which is held in the spring. This drive is the largest student-run campus bone marrow drive in the nation. The student cost for the two-hour event was $7.

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A member of our staff was sitting down in the office Wednesday afternoon when a fire fighter went sprinting past. Seeing our staff member sitting inside, he opened the door and asked what she was doing in the building since there was a fire upstairs in the Marketplace kitchen.

Our staff member was shocked, especially because there was no audible alarm warning her of the danger.

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Recently, at a party on the other side of campus, sophomore Dominique Baldwin didn't feel well. Her friends were having a good time, so she decided to leave and walk back to her dorm alone. The paths were dark, but once she was halfway back, there was nowhere for her to go. She walked faster.

"I spend the entire walk back thinking that I had made the wrong decision. I didn't want to walk alone, but I didn't think I had any other option," Baldwin said.

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Roger Ebert, in his two-and-a-half star review (out of 4), describes "Little Nicky" as being "the best Adam Sandler movie to date." It could very well be, if Adam Sandler had contributed something instead of just having a screwed-up voice and a bad haircut.

In his previous films, he's been the center of attention -- our hero, if you will. "The Wedding Singer" made us feel sorry for him and "The Waterboy" made us cheer him on to annihilate the opposing team. We really wanted him to hook up with Joey Lauren Adams in "Big Daddy."

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Even with their playoff hopes extinguished, the W&M football program had quite a bit of incentive this past weekend as they traveled to Philadelphia to take on Villanova University.

First of all, the Tribe needed a win to have any hope of extending their eight-year-long streak of winning seasons. In addition, there was the possibility of capturing back-to-back games against the Wildcats for the first time since 1996. Finally, there was the opportunity to snuff out VU's flickering playoff hopes.

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