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By Steven Viera || Senior Editor This semester, the College’s faculty voted in favor of adding a statement on free expression to the Faculty Handbook to protect the rights of…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Students turned out by the hundreds last Tuesday, Apr. 5, to vote in officer elections for the Diplomatic Congress (DipCon) where representatives of the…
By Preman Koshar || Arts & Entertainment Editor I would be willing to bet $10 — and no more than that, as that’s about my cumulative net worth at the moment — that no…
By Izzy Schellenger || Staff Writer On Saturday, April 9, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., the College Entertainment Committee (the CEC) hosted F&M’s annual Spring Arts, a day that…
By Christa Rodriguez || Assistant Campus Life Editor The F&M English department held its annual Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) this week, hosting events April 6th-8th at either the Green Room…
By Nick Riebel || Staff Writer Despite the great importance of the Panama Papers, it seems that many have not heard, or know very little about, these documents. And, for…
Full Staff Opinion You know what we realized today? We, as a staff, really hate April. We really do. It always seems that this month is the most stressful, heavily-programmed…
By Christa Rodriguez || Assistant Campus Life Editor This week’s Common Hour featured David G. Embrick, Ph. D, associate professor of sociology at Loyola University in Chicago. His presentation, “What…
By Ellie Gavin || Campus Life Editor This Wednesday, professors from the Government and History departments hosted a panel discussing what they deemed “the Trump phenomenon”– that is, presidential candidate…
By Izzy Schellenger || Staff Writer On Friday, April 1, F&M’s Colleges Against Cancer held the annual, internationally known event, Relay for Life. The purpose of this event is to…
By Julia Cinquegrani || Editor-in-Chief On March 29, Frances Wolf ’96, the First Lady of Pennsylvania and a Trustee of F&M, visited campus for an intimate discussion with students, and…
By Nick Riebel || Staff Writer Please forgive the platitude, but I believe that voting is your right and duty. This presidential election, the pundits say every four years, is…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Speaking from the Patricia E. Harris Center of Business, Government & Public Policy, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf called for a series of ethics reforms…
By Bridget Johnston || Layout Assistant Beginning in June of 2016, Franklin & Marshall College will start construction for Shadek Stadium, if you see more here you will know that…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Tom Wolf, governor of Pennsylvania, will deliver F&M’s Commencement Address on Saturday, May 7. In addition to his speech, Wolf will receive an honorary…