On his very first morning of class, freshman Peter-Paul De Bie walked out of his dorm, intending to get on his bike and head to his first college course. However, his bike was nowhere to be found. He had secured the bike the day before with a cable lock.

"I thought that I had left it in the rack in front of my hall, but it wasn't there," De Bie said.

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Every year various magazines release their version of which colleges rank the highest. Every year these magazine fail to recognize some truly important traits that make a college great.

Ranking systems are only as good their criteria, but the elements that make a college good are often immeasureable. Because ranking systems inherently favor large campuses, the value of a smaller college goes largely unrecognized.

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Freshman Eric Horowitz calls it "the best thing to hit William and Mary since the class of 2004." More parking spaces? No. The lowering of out-of-state tuition? Sorry. Are they going to stop putting three people in a room made for two? Nope, still wrong. It's the new Chinese take-out service now offered at the Caf.

The service, which kicked off Aug. 30, is currently being offered Monday through Thursday from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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"The Cell" is a visually dazzling, carefully crafted and ideologically empty example of 21st-century filmmaking. The movie asks too many questions it cannot answer and suggests too many themes that it refuses to support.

Instead, "The Cell" showers its audience with an unstoppable and highly surreal string of images fused together only by rapid cuts. At bottom, "The Cell" is yet another product of the MTV mentality, forsaking a strong story for an intensely entertaining visual parade.

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The College's field hockey team continued its hot start this weekend with two more wins.

Last Sunday, the Tribe defeated David-son College 7-0 in a virtual blowout.

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