The Mace & Crown

Derek Page Assistant News Editor It’s getting down to the wire as GOP candidates kick their campaigns into high gear for the final stretch in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.  Voters eagerly await next Saturdays primary in South Carolina to get a better view of the candidates and who will likely receive the [...]

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Allison Terres Contributing Writer At a White House press conference held Monday, Jan. 9, President Barack Obama announced the resignation of his Chief of Staff, William M. Daley. The announcement came only a year after Daley’s appointment to the position. Jacob Lew, current director of the Office of Management and Budget, will be his replacement. [...]

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TRAGEDY STRIKES CAMPUS AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES Written By: Derek Page, News Assistant Virginia Tech experienced another tragic shooting, Thursday, December 8. The incident has left one campus police officer and one unidentified victim dead, reports confirmed just before 2 p.m. “Everyone is on edge and freaking out, pretty much,” said Abigail Garty, a junior at [...]

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Displaying the Ten Commandments. Written By: Janah Stokes,  Staff Writer A Southwestern Virginia public school is battling for the right to display the Ten Commandments. A student and the students’ parent came forward with complaints about the Ten Commandments being posted in a Giles County public school. The complaint states that the presence of the [...]

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NATO airstrike on Pakistani check post was monumental communications failure Written by: Derek Page, News Assistant Ties between the United States and Pakistan have sunk to a new low after a NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last Saturday, Nov. 26.  The incident occurred at a Pakistan-Afghan border when a joint US-Afghan operation came under [...]

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Written By: Morgan Malone, Contributing Writer Senator Ralph Northam and Ben Loyola both spent months campaigning to represent District 6 in the Virginia Senate. Both campaigned on issues ranging from healthcare and transportation to the size of government and education. In the end, it was Northam who topped Loyola by over 5,000 votes. “I supported [...]

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Women speak out against Cain Written By: Derek Page, News Assistant Sexual harassment allegations facing Herman Cain continue to prove arduous for the hopeful Republican presidential nominee. Recently, four women have made accusations against Cain, though he still continues to deny all allegations saying, “I have never sexually harassed anyone. Let’s say that secondly, um, [...]

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Pro-Gun and Anti-Gun protests engulf Kaufman Mall Written By: David Bakhshaee, News Editor The College Republicans, a student organization at Old Dominion University, facilitated an event on Kaufman Mall, regarding weapons policies at colleges and universities in Virginia. On Nov. 1, the Virginia Citizens Defense League and the Virginia Center for Public Safety, squared off [...]

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GOP Republican Hopeful candidate Written By: William Channel, Senior Writer Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Representative and a member of the Tea Party, is a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. Her platform, is heavily based on traditional Christian values. Michele Bachmann started off strong, but is currently struggling in the polls. Bachmann is somewhat [...]

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Written By: Erin Robertson James Richard “Rick” Perry, the current governor of Texas and a Republican presidential candidate for 2012, is hoping to take President Obama’s spot in next year’s election. If Perry was to be elected as president, his major plans would intertwine taxes and foreign policy.  Perry believes that our nation can only [...]

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