Winning season and tough losses to nationall-ranked teams put H-SC on the map

The weather has certainly gotten hotter over the past few weeks, but so has the Hampden-Sydney Lacrosse team.  Despite 4 losses on the season, the Tigers are starting to gain national recognition, moving up to a #20 national ranking.  Typically, a 10-4 record would not result in coming close to the Top 20 poll; however, all 4 Tiger losses have come to teams ranked in the top 15.  A boost in the Tigers’ résumé came in a road …

After months of controversy, Student Senate hears results of pilot program and votes “No”
On Wednesday, March 24, “going trayless” met its maker. 
The unpopular policy, which received only one third of voter support in a Tiger Online poll, and had beleaguered students since the possibility had been breached early last semester, was voted down in a unanimous decision by the Student Senate. 
In a final statement, Senate Chairman Scott Anderson ’10 said that going without trays was “not in the best interest of the student body.” 
The meeting was designed to present facts …

With plenty of senior leadership this year, the baseball Tigers are still looking for the consistency they will need for a successful season. Hampden-Sydney sits at 8-6, but just 2-4 in ODAC play. They recently completed a Spring Break trip to Georgia and Alabama in which they defeated Piedmont College of Demorest, GA, but dropped both games of a double header with Huntingdon College of Montgomery, AL.
College baseball is a funny sport in that at the beginning of the season, you really have no clue who might be an impact …

Recently, Dr. Steven Horwitz came to talk about the response of private enterprise to the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. When the storm subsided, a tremendous amount of media attention was paid to the clumsy rescue-operation mustered by the Federal Emergency Management Association. Nevertheless, Dr. Horwitz, a distinguished professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, travelled to Hampden-Sydney to share an underemphasized story of how on-site private enterprise spearheaded crucial relief efforts spanning the disaster area.
In some respects, leading the charge was retail-giant, Wal-Mart, …

The Hampden-Sydney Basketball team has, at times, seemed cursed over the course of the 2009-2010 season.  At the beginning of the season, the Tigers knew they had a tough road ahead, but the Tigers were up to the challenge.  The Tigers (6-9) have certainly competed but have lost four games against Top 17 teams—Guilford, St. Mary’s, Randolph-Macon, and Virginia Wesleyan—by a combined 9 points.
The Tigers started off the season with a bang.  After losing the season opener at Division I High Point University, the Tigers rolled through their next four …

The Tigers’ sensational season concluded with a first round loss against Johns Hopkins University at Lewis C. Everett Stadium. Throughout the regular season, the Tigers went undefeated, took home four of the six major ODAC awards, placed 12 players on All-ODAC teams, and gave Tiger fans a season to remember.
The 8-2 Blue Jays of Johns Hopkins came into the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament as the underdog against the undefeated Tigers, but the Blue Jays proved they deserved to be there, dominating the time of possession …

While the football team is making a run at an undefeated season, the soccer team has been creating quite the stir of its own. With Head Coach Josh Laux keeping the student body informed of the team’s success and upcoming events through school-wide emails, a buzz was generated around the Hill. The exciting, well-attended game against Randolph Macon pushed the team to 12-2 and wins in four out of their next five games, leading up to the ODAC semifinals vs. Lynchburg. The only loss in that five game stretch was …

Homecoming performance and revenge over Catholic bring H-SC to 8-0
Two ugly wins are better than two pretty losses. Overcast skies with cold winds plagued the Tigers on Homecoming against Washington & Lee while dark, windy, and rainy conditions put a damper on the Tigers’ performance against Catholic University. Although the Tigers pulled out a win in both contests the weather was very fitting for how the Tigers played. The Tigers averaged well below season averages in most statistical categories, but because of their resiliency, the Tigers were …

Hampden-Sydney not unaffected by economic downturn: students feel the crunch in club funds, endowment takes major hit.
Of course Hampden-Sydney has been affected by the world’s economic crisis. There’s no doubt about that. It’s probably impossible to name a single school that hasn’t suffered from what Economics Department Chairperson, Dr. Sarana Thornton, calls a “very severe recession.”
Consider the big perspective: the number of people unemployed 26 weeks or more was at 5 million in August 2009, up by 166% from August 2008. The median duration of unemployment was 15.4 …

President rallies students’ spirits at town hall meeting held in Kirby

In his historic address to the student body last Thursday, September 10th, President Christopher Howard charged the student body to “protect this house.” Professor Warner Winborne ’88 guessed that no similar address had happened in at least twenty years. What Howard did last Thursday was, truly, unprecedented. “It was a great way for him to break into the general student body population,” according to Honor Court Chairman Will Moss ’10.
When asked for his reaction, one member of the faculty …