The independent student newspaper of Franklin & Marshall College
By Samantha Greenfield II Senior Staff Writer This past week, the Common Hour lecture was given by author and professor of English at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, Christopher Bakken. Bakken…
By Noah Sunshine II Senior Staff Writer Remember the media frenzy when Google announced Glass, the connected heads-up-display that brought its search engine anywhere and kept just a hotword away?…
By Steven Viera and Abigail Quint A series of articles published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, including “What You Need to Know About Yik Yak, an App Causing Trouble…
By Shira Kipnees II Senior Staff Writer Last Monday, Feb. 2, Dan Porterfield, president of the College, welcomed the newest fraternity members on campus, congratulating them on their bid acceptances…
By Joe Yamulla II Assistant Sports Editor The New England Patriots are Super Bowl Champions again. This past Super Bowl Sunday was a game for the ages. It was an…
By Joe Giordano II Contributing Writer Consider the following situation: your parent or family member commits a crime. The police come to investigate the crime and decide to punish both…
By Georgianna Pisano-Goetz II Contributing Alumni Writer Students graduating early hoping to gain an edge on employment may be disappointed to find out they will not be hired until they…
By Nick Riebel II Staff Writer You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts. And even then, your own opinion isn’t necessarily as valid as…
By Greg Fullham II Contributing Writer To college students across the country, the internship—a temporary position, either paid or unpaid, designed to provide basic work experience in a particular field—is…
By Aditya Ramachandran II Staff Writer In the last five years, the insurgency led by the terrorist Islamist front Boko Haram has caused over a million Nigerians to be displaced…
By Abigail Quint II Editor in Chief When David Ganse ’86 saw the space in the basement of the Lancaster Seminary, he knew that his bookstore, Adamstown Books, had found…
By Brianne Simone II Contributing Writer Have you ever wanted to see Cinderella in space? How about Channing Tatum with pointy prosthetic ears? Even if you’ve never wanted to see…
By Julia Chirls II Staff Writer Singer-songwriter, artist, and writer Bob Dylan has continued to influence the music industry with his talent in rock and folk for over five decades,…
By Livia Meneghin II Contributing Writer “I was on fire. It’s my earliest memory.” (9) Jeannette Walls’ memoir, The Glass Castle, includes many encounters with fire, and weaves through the…