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By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Last Thursday, Paul Ryan (R-WI) was elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ryan secured 236 votes to win the speakership, winning the…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Tom Wolf, governor of Pennsylvania, is beginning to lose support from his constituents as a result of the state’s inability to pass a budget…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Last week, representatives of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity (ZBT) visited F&M to discuss their organization with interested students at information sessions and at…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Stemming from an epidemic of mass shootings, colleges and universities across the nation have been forced to establish plans and preparations for the possibility…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor When Sue L. Washburn ’73 first arrived on F&M’s campus, she did so as a member of the first cohort of female students to…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Last Thursday, Oct. 15, Sue L. Washburn ’73 was elected by unanimous vote to serve as the new chair of F&M’s Board of Trustees.…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor In a message to the F&M community, Mike Wetzel, associate vice president for facilities management and campus planning, announced the opening of West Liberty…
By Jinghzi Li || Contributing Writer With reporting by Steven Viera || Senior Editor Rather than warning of a plague of insects, “Locusts” is how many citizens of Hong Kong…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Pope Francis concluded a nine-day tour of Cuba and the United States, his first visit to both countries, on Sunday, September 27. Throughout his…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor With reporting by Julia Cinquegrani || Editor-in-Chief College campuses have a long tradition of pushing boundaries and shaping the direction of American culture, both…
By Erin Moyer || Senior Editor Last Tuesday, Sep. 21st, the College hosted a Student Sexual Misconduct Forum in Stager Hall’s Stahr Auditorium to discuss changes in F&M’s sexual misconduct…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor On Tuesdays and Thursdays since the beginning of the semester, representatives of the College and Lancaster General Health (LGH) have hosted open informational sessions…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Last Thursday, Sep. 16, Donald Trump permitted a questioner at a town hall event to make perjorative comments about Muslims and President Obama. Following…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor In response to unprecedented waves of refugees seeking shelter in Europe, Germany will introduce temporary controls on its border with Austria to stem the…
By Garret Largoza || News Editor Richard W. Moog, Professor of Chemistry, will receive the prestigious 2016 George C. Pimentel Award, co-sponsored by Cengage Learning and the American Chemical Society’s…