Am I Emaciated Enough?
Photo courtesy of Franklin & Marshall College Drop. Dead. Gorgeous. Hosted on March 21st in the Lisa Bonchek Adams Auditorium, this Common Hour, titled Drop Dead Gorgeous: The Fashion for…
“Don’t let fear destroy your destiny”: Enron Whistleblower Sherron Watkins shares lessons from the lecture trail
“Known internationally as the Enron whistleblower, Sherron speaks around the globe to a broad range of audiences about ethics and leadership, and the lessons to be learned from the collapse…
Common Hour Speaker Inspires New Club, F&M Action for Refugee Resettlement (FARR)
By: Angela Azar || Contributing Writer Inspired by Dr. Diya Abdo’s Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR), F&M Action for Refugee Resettlement (FARR) began at F&M to encourage learning about the…
Common Hour Review: “Canaries in the Coal Mine: Global LGBTQI+ Rights in the 21st Century.”
By Munahil Sultana || Contributing Writer During last week’s Common Hour, Professor Susan Dicklitch-Nelson and Professor Kasparek of the Government Department presented their work with the F&M Global Barometers in…
Common Hour: On the Origin of Species: Historical and Biological Reflections on a Paradigm-Changing Text
By Teagan Durkin || Staff Writer Photo courtesy of the author. If you visited the Martin Library between February 10th and 24th, you would have seen a special display. On…
Common Hour: How South Asia Dreams Beside Turkey and Syria
By Alfee Rubayet | Contributing Writer On Thursday, February 12th, Dr. Adeem Suhail, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, delivered a powerful lecture as part of Franklin & Marshall’s Common Hour…
The Return of Common Hour Encourages Racial Reckoning for F&M
By Anika Willander | Contributing Writer On Thursday, January 26th, 2023, Franklin and Marshall College hosted its first in-person Common Hour since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. James B.…
Using Language to Mediate Conflict, Foster Understanding with Padraig O Tuama
By Lily Vining || Staff Writer Franklin & Marshall College was delighted to welcome Padraig O Tuama, poet, theologian, and conflict mediator, as last week’s Common Hour speaker and guest…
Professor Julie Smith informs students about misinformation in media
By Nina Kegelman|| Staff Writer This week’s common hour speaker was Professor Julie Smith, MS of Webster University School of Communications. A world-wide speaker and author of the book Master…
Common Hour Speaker Ann D. Gordon on women’s suffrage in US.
By Nina Kegelman|| Staff Writer This week’s Common Hour speaker was Ann D. Gordon, a Research Professor Emerita at Rutgers University, historian, editor, and self-described “cranky secular feminist.” Gordon’s talk,…
Dr.Yusef Salam spoke about criminal justice system, major impact on his life
By Nina Kegelman || Staff Writer “Yusef Salaam, do you have anything to say before we sentence you?” Dr. Yusef Salaam, one of the “Exonerated Five,” a group of teenagers…
Common Hour speaker advocates for multilingualism in education systems.
By Nina Kegelman || Contributing Writer This week’s Common Hour speaker was Dr. Kimberly Potowski, a Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Potowski directs a…
Nature Author David Quammen Expresses Concerns for National Park Habitats
By Nina Kegelman || Contributing Writer This Thursday’s Common Hour speaker was science and nature author David Quammen, whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New…
Writer Amani Dobson shares first experience at Writer’s House Thanksgiving
By Amani Dobson || Layout Assistant Shivering, I ripped the door to the Writer’s House open, and there it was. A warm breeze hugging me as Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good”…
Common Hour panel discusses future implications of 2020 impeachment trials
By Isabel Paris || Campus Life Editor This week’s Common Hour featured a panel of government professors discussing the history and current implications of impeachment. More specifically, the professors focused…