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By Sojin Shin || Contributing Writer At a glance, student journalism may seem like an obsolete concept. After all, social media has made access to information very easy. Almost all…
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By Sojin Shin || Contributing Writer At a glance, student journalism may seem like an obsolete concept. After all, social media has made access to information very easy. Almost all…
By Lucy Ulrich || Contributing Writer With preseason and the summer coming to an end, the NFL’s much anticipated first week kicked off on September 5th in Chicago, with the…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor On Monday, the California State Assembly passed the Fair Pay to Play Act with a resounding 73-0 vote. The bill, a version of which…
By Yujie Wang || Contributing Writer On September 5th, the US and China announced a new round of trade talks in Washington in October. This is the 13th round of…
By Mira Lerner || Contributing Writer Over a week after Hurricane Dorian left the Bahamas and moved on to North Carolina, thousands of people are still stranded and struggling to…
By Jeremy Mauser || Staff Writer On Sunday, September 8, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that President Donald Trump had ceased peace negotiations with the Taliban, citing the cause…
By Simon Taylor || Contributing Writer Ten candidates took the stage for the third televised Democratic presidential primary debate on Thursday, September 12, hosted by ABC on the campus of…
Photos by Mira Lerner || Photographer and Contributing Writer Blurb by Isabel Paris || Campus Life Editor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. visited Franklin and Marshall’s campus to be a Common…
By Amani Dobson || Contributing Writer In 2012, an American electronic band named Chromatics released a single titled “Cherry.” The song begins with a mellow tune that instantly grabs the…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor The audience knows her only as Fleabag: a deeply angry (and deeply sad) woman attempting to cope with past trauma through humor. She is…
By Erin Maxwell || Contributing Writer With ten candidates qualifying, the third Democratic debate will air this Thursday, September 12th on ABC and Univision. To qualify for this debate, the candidates had to…
By Caitlyn Jennings || Contributing Writer Between signing up for classes and registering for clubs, it is easy for first-years at F&M to overlook a critical aspect of college life: food. There…
By Amani Dobson || Contributing Writer A young girl runs home after school with the feeling of dread sitting comfortably in the pit of her stomach. This morning she had…
By Mira Lerner || Contributing Writer The flames of the Amazon are finally shedding mainstream light on the eurocentricity and white supremacy that pervade the wealthy 1%. In light of…
By Sojin Shin || Contributing Writer We all remember the flyers on the walls of Stager last year, with those oddly pixelated, eerie eyes of Martin Luther King Jr. looming upon us. Controversy…