At Hampden-Sydney College, students enjoy many liberties that many other schools outright ban. Take allowing guns on campus, for example.  Allowing guns on campus poses a potential threat to security, yet our school allows students to have guns under certain conditions.  Any student who chooses to bring a firearm or bow must register them with the school and must also keep them in the gun locker. Nonetheless, there are some who choose to keep their guns close at hand in their dorm rooms.
For those of unfamiliar with the gun locker, …

Hampden-Sydney students are very fortunate to attend a school that offers a vast number of seminars and forums from well-accredited speakers, but events such as these are sometimes a hardship on their hosts due to a seemingly harmless culprit: cookies.
Faculty and students both have had issues with the catering policies and prices provided by Aramark. The price of light refreshments, such as cookies, bottles of water, and cheese trays have become a problem among members of the community who want to serve refreshments at school events.
According to Aramark’s H-SC catering …

At any Saturday home game at Hampden-Sydney the professors who watch the game from the Wilson Center are a welcome and familiar sight, and it is usually the same professors who attend each game. This group of professors has become a fixture at the College. Students, who appreciate additional out-of-classroom time to interact with their professors, also respect them.
Decades ago the on-campus and out-of-classroom contact was even more pronounced, but with different generations come different priorities. This is not to say that newer professors do not value the students, but …

In an unprecedented turn of events, Hampden-Sydney recently lost yet another student from the class of 2014. On October 27, a memorial service was held at College Church for sophomore Zack Grier. As members of the community filled into the church, it was for the third time in less than a year. And for such a small community, three is not just a number. It is a significant absence that will continue to be felt. But H-SC is showing the symptoms of what is becoming an outbreak in colleges around …

With two drug and alcohol-related deaths of Hampden-Sydney students within a year, the time has come to reevaluate entertainment options available on campus. The weekends at H-SC have become a ghost town with no opportunity for entertainment but football games and frat parties whenever they appear. This leads to one of three choices for public entertainment on campus: party, do nothing, or go home. This in turn leads to the taking of substances either as part of the party action or from pure boredom.
This culture on campus has led to …

                 Even though smoking marijuana comes with many negative health effects and legal consequences, consumers demand it. Government decree is not enough to stop the forces of supply and demand or keep innovative, profit maximizing entrepreneurs from creating marijuana substitutes that provide a marijuana-like high without the associated risks. One of the most common substitutes is K2 or ‘Spice.’ K2 is typically used as incense, composed of herbs and a few synthetic compounds, and designed to replicate marijuana when smoked, except it’s legal.
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Last week, a Detroit news station ran a story about the dangers of privatization in the foster care business. They interviewed a grandmother who was trying to adopt her grandchildren, but the supposedly “private” adoption agency  refused to let her adopt them. Why? The adoption agency stands to make between $5,000 to $10,000 for in-state adoptions, but only $3,000 for out-of-state adoptions, and the grandmother just happened to live out-of-state. The news station was quick to berate the private adoption agency, accusing them of trying to make a quick buck. …