Last month in The Congress, two bills were introduced that would have expanded the power of the United States government to fight trafficking of copyrighted intellectual property on the internet. One bill, The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) was introduced in the House of Representatives while another, The Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) was introduced in the Senate. Both bills were introduced to attack illegal distribution of copyrighted and trademarked products which have become a worldwide, multibillion-dollar industry according to some …

Farmville’s Habitat chapter is benefitting from Hampden-Sydney support this year in a variety of ways. There have been fund-raisers, construction and de-construction, and renewed club activity.
Last fall, the Habitat Golf Event raised over $2,500 to enable them to “continue building homes and building hope.”  Included among the 32 golfers were two H-SC teams: the Circle K team of Tim Shen, Patrick Lynch, Scott Cutler, and Steven Ellmann; and the Phi Gamma Delta team of Conner Rund, Andrew Near, Eric Rutherford, and Samson Canovos. Faculty golfers included Drs. Curt and Susan …

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 …

Editor, The Tiger:
Let me start this article with an admission: I am biased. As a former Marshal, or Pledge Master, and current Rush Chair of Theta Chi. I am, therefore, ideologically committed to the idea of Fraternal Organizations. I will attempt to be self-aware enough to check that and approach this article as purely a student.
Every week I, like all students here, spend hours upon hours secluded in academic buildings, computer labs, and the library attempting to gain an education that rivals any offered in the world. The incredible faculty …

Christopher Turpin’s recent opinion piece, “The Libertarian Ideology is a Joke,” actually made a rather stunning case for a libertarian ideology. In his opinion piece he claimed that: “people are not infinitely smart or wise,” “man is fallible”, “we need laws,” and he implied that governments are often willing to sacrifice trade relationships for war.  We must take these claims as a given, for they are, in reality, true. However, Mr. Turpin has reached very different conclusions, than the libertarians, given these facts.
Mr. Turpin claims “people are not infinitely smart …

On behalf of the Student Finance Committee and in the spirit of increased openness and transparency, we have decided to publish all allocations for the Fall Semester 2011 in The Tiger.  Overall, $109,096.00 was allocated amongst clubs and organizations for this semester.  This amount, teamed with approximately $102,000.00 left over from previous semesters, has left a number of clubs and organizations in very strong fiscal standing. The SFC has been as fair as possible throughout the auditing and allocation process, and consulted the Student Senate following the distribution of funds. …

Editor, the Tiger:
Over the past several years our society has taken the responsible move to help protect the health and safety of our citizens by reducing and limiting areas where smoking is acceptable based on years of research which highlights the negative impacts of smoking. The results of a statewide survey completed four years ago revealed that Hampden-Sydney College was the only college or university in Virginia that still allowed smoking on campus with virtually no restrictions. The findings of this survey led to the administration reaching the decision to …

Editor, the Tiger:
As the president of a fraternity, I would like bring to attention a school policy that is deeply harming the greek system: Hampden-Sydney College is not responsible for any property left in college housing over the summer—which is subsequently stolen. I believe H-SC needs to do more to prevent fraternity property loss because fraternities are different in nature than all other college housing, and the school is missing an opportunity to attract money from donors as it stands.
Over the past two summers, my fraternity has had thousands of …

My youngest son Mike had a soccer tournament in Williamsburg Labor Day weekend. While riding up the elevator to our room after Saturday’s games I saw a used band-aid on the floor. Ick!
When riding the elevator down to the lobby thirty minutes later I saw the used band-aid, plus two candy wrappers on the floor. Ick!
After dinner I read “Cigarette Butts: Incentivize, Don’t Criticize”. Cigarette butts littering our campus–ICK!
Mom Alert:  I don’t offer my children monetary rewards, or special treats, to incentivize them to empty the trash, carry the groceries in …

To celebrate Hampden-Sydney’s treasured Greek Week celebration, the College Actives Committee looked for a new take on how to put on a memorable concert.
Creating a festival themed show, involving three bands, the CAC found a new tactic to draw in a crowd. The CAC decided to host a festival Greek Week Concert by bringing in three different bands in order to produce a night of music and entertainment for the Hampden-Sydney Community. The CAC and the more than 1000 attendees to the concert jammed out with Perpetual Groove, Tea Leaf …