“An Elegy”
By Tristan Steffe || Contributing Writer ‘I pace upon the battlements and stare / On the foundations of a house, or where / Tree, like a sooty finger, starts from…
Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Reflects on 2020 at F&M
By Gretchel Hathaway || Vice President of Diversity Equity and Inclusion As one of the newest members of the F&Mily, I wish to thank everyone – students, faculty, and professional…
The Onion Dip: How to Survive Living at Home With the Family Again
By Diana Lichtenstein || Onion Dip Columnist and Allie Sokol || Layout Assistant There is nothing better than spending most of your Junior year of college at home in your…
The Onion Dip: Eleven Takes on Finding Love During a Pandemic
By Kyra Lisse || Contributing Writer TAKE ONE. Don’t do it. Like, don’t even think about it. Mask up! Listen to science! Leave room for Jesus—for six Jesuses, in fact!…
Support Black authors in 2021: It’s about time
By Olivia Schmid || Layout Assistant Racial justice has become a much more significant focus in 2020 than in recent years; the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, the fight against…
The Onion Dip: A Bug’s Life in 2020
By Jamie Belfer || Sports Editor 2020 has been a year of ups and downs, especially for the insect community in and around the Campus Crossings apartments (Crow). Bands of…
Scale Modeling hobby provides student with creative outlet during quarantine
By Sylvain Falquet || Contributing Writer A relatively small occurrence in an eventful year gave me a bit of “normalcy.” Despite the challenges of online learning, I was able to…
Taylor Swift releases “Evermore,” sister album to “Folklore”
By Rohail Spear || Layout Assistant Four and a half months after she released Folklore, her most critically acclaimed album of her career, Taylor Swift dropped an equally moving and…
What I’m Going to do When COVID is Over: How the Pandemic Should Make Us Envision Our Resolutions Differently in 2021
By Samantha Milowitz || Op-Eds Editor Do you know that feeling when you’re sick? When you’re lying in bed, coughing, sneezing, whatever it is, and you feel absolutely useless? And…
Resolved to Fail: Why Your New Year’s Goals Never Stick and How to be Better in 2021
By Lily Vining || Staff Writer Hi there. I spoke with your future self, and you let me in on a secret: You know that New Year’s Resolution to exercise…
An International Student’s Endless Pandemic Question: Should We Stay, or Should We Leave?
By Xinghan Ma || Contributing Writer 2020 is about to end. From history, we have learned how an infectious disease can endanger the whole human civilization, yet still, our society…
Op-Ed: Top Ten Events that Happened in 2020, From the Perspective of a College Student
By Jack Gilroy || Contributing Writer Holy cow… what a year 2020 has been. One that anyone who lived through it will look back on and remember for the rest…
A Person of the World: Contributing Writer Explores How the Pandemic Has Emphasized Our Relationships With Other Nations
By Hongyuan Guo || Contributing Writer The number of years is never important; what’s important is our experiences. Experiences made this year special for me. At the start of the…
Guidance for Returning to Your Off-Campus Residence in January
Margaret Hazlett margaret.hazlett@fandm.edu Fri, Dec 18, 11:20 AM Dear Students, We are looking forward to your return to your off-campus residence in College Row, College Hill or James Street Property…
[For students] Spring 2021 Planning Update
F&M Leadership Team leadership@fandm.edu Wed, Dec 16, 4:45 PM Dear F&M Community, Two weeks after the successful completion of fall term, we are already excited about J-term and Modules 3…