Athlete’s Perspective: Peternel reflects on overcoming life-altering adversity
By Garrett Peternel ’14, Contributing Writer Being a student athlete is a privilege. Having the ability to play a sport and attend a fine academic institution is a blessing. I…
F&M men’s, women’s rowing teams prepare for upcoming Spring season
By Mark Rossman ’14, Sports Editor The men’s and women’s rowing teams have made great strides this Fall season. The teams are now on hiatus until Spring, when the team’s…
F&M women’s swim team commences season, take down Bryn Mawr College
By Sophie Afdhal ’15, Associate Sports Editor The lady Dips of the F&M Swim team are off to a mixed start in the season. The season opener occurred on the…
Men’s cross country competes at Centennial Conference Championships
By Jonathan Pressman ’14, Senior Staff Writer In a notoriously competitive conference, the F&M men’s cross country fought for a sixth-place finish at the Centennial Conference Championship meet on Saturday,…
Mayoral election brings Internet availability to the table
By Julia Scavicchio ‘14 For many of us the Internet is simply the Internet. We don’t think of where it comes from or who gives it to us. This may…
West should stop deferring to Saudi petro-dollars
By Aditya Ramachandran ’17 Just one day after the U.N elected the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to a special seat on the Security Council, the country’s rulers refused to accept…
Re-examining the implications of single-gendered bathrooms
By Chan Tov Dear ladies, if you’re promoting bathroom discrimination — urine trouble. Pardon the bad pun, but I really feel the need to address issues found in an article a…
Modern movies preferable to stale scares
By Jonathan Blader ’17 With Halloween in the rearview mirror, I could sit here for hours typing a little homage to the classics of the horror genre because they deserve…
Classic films still spook horror fans
By Max Pearlman ’17 I love horror movies. There is something really amazing about the emotion that a horror movie can evoke. It is arguably more powerful then any other…
Dominant Westernization spurns global resentment
By Grace Meredith ‘16 At some point in our education, we come to the realization that many parts of the world are not happy places to be. There is genocide…
Gotham brings comics to small screen
FOX anticipates positive reception of new show By Georgianna Pisano-Goetz FOX has won the bidding war to bring James Gordon to television. You may know him better as Commissioner James…
Dion continues growth throughout multi-decade career with new album
Loved Me Back to Life allows for experimental duets with contrasting artistic approaches By Julia Chirls The wait is over for the Céline Dion fans out there, including me. An…
Film adaptation of popular science-fiction novel stays true to story
Ender’s Game sees remarkable performances from young, old cast alike By Jeffrey Robinowitz Someone from the production of Ender’s Game should send Christiane Kubrick some flowers as a way of…
Arcade Fire infuses Haitian influences into fourth studio album
Award-winning indie band uses guerilla marketing to promote Reflektor By Kimberly Givant, Staff Writer For months, fans have anxiously awaited the release of Arcade Fire’s fourth studio album. Since the…
Women’s Center reopens to discussion of gender barriers
By Justin Kozloski ’14, Editor-in-Chief The Alice Drum Women’s Center held its first discussion of the semester on Friday, after extensive renovations were made to the space to better facilitate…