Letter to the Class of 2013
Seniors, Welcome to your new community: The Franklin & Marshall Alumni Association. On behalf of our more than 25,000 alumni, it is my pleasure to congratulate you on your impending…
AOL article inspires contemplation of religious intolerance
BY BRIONA PRICE ’16 Staff Writer After making the daily rounds on AOL — a reliable news source regardless of what my friends say — I came across a rather strange article. “Orthodox Jew…
Search for extraterrestrial life proves to be worthwhile endeavor
BY SEAN SIMONEAU ’13 Staff Writer As a fan of the movie Contact and a general enthusiast for anything space-related, I was especially excited to hear Jill Tarter speak at…
Consequences of catcalling supercede First Amendment
BY GRACE MEREDITH ’16 Staff Writer The other day, my mother drove from Philadelphia to Lancaster so the two of us could do a much-needed shopping trip. It was a…
Nice weather is no excuse for sloppy habits
BY SARA BLANK ’14 Opinion & Editorial Editor F&M, here’s the deal. If we’re all going to be upset that we have a reputation in the community and in the…
Gun debate defies all information, driven by passions
BY CONNOR BURNS ’13 Senior Staff After the tragedy in Newtown, CT, America struggled with a series of definitions. We still do. What, exactly, constitutes an assault rifle? How many…
China must intervene as tensions increase on Korean Peninsula
BY KYLE GRACZYK ‘16 Contributing Writer For the past month, the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) has increasingly made the international community nervous with the expansion of their…
New BRAIN Initiative to provide insight into human mind
BY SEAN SIMONEAU ‘13 Contributing Writer This past Tuesday, President Obama presented his plans for a new scientific research project to develop the technology for mapping the human brain. The…
Becoming more honest about gender rights
BY GRACE MEREDITH ‘16 Contributing Writer Two weeks ago, I was scrolling through my Facebook on a Tuesday afternoon when I found my newsfeed alive with scarlet banners of friends…
Mapping the brain harkens economic revitalization
BY CONNOR BURNS ‘13 Senior Staff President Obama successfully passed comprehensive reform of healthcare finance, and, to a lesser extent, taxes. Now the president is setting his sight on an…
“De-extinction” could revive long-lost species
BY SEAN SIMONEAU ‘13 Contributing Writer Imagine passenger pigeons and Carolina parakeets flying the skies over the United States. See Tasmanian tigers running through the Australian outback, Caribbean monk seals…
FandM Confessions demands focus on LGBTA community
BY MOLLY SULDS ‘14 Contributing Writer It’s time we get real. And by real I don’t just mean posting problems to FandM Confessions. No, it’s time we get real about…
Stop looking to Washington to revive economy
BY MIKE KRAUSS ’71 Alumnus Writer The United States remains trapped in a slow moving social catastrophe. Millions of unemployed, late-middle-aged Americans will never again have full-time, well- paying jobs.…
Body image ought to be matter of health, not size
BY GRACE MEREDITH’16Contributing Writer I was recently scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed when I noticed an unusual news headline my friend shared. The headline, from “SmartPlanet,” a news site sponsored…
Scientific breakthroughs encourage hope in worldwide HIV battle
BY SEAN SIMONEAU ‘13 Contributing Writer Since the early 1980’s, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and resulting Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) have run rampant all over the planet, spreading…