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By Samantha Greenfield || Senior Staff Writer This week’s Common Hour was given by Franklin and Marshall’s first deaf speaker, Dr. Patrick Boudreault. He grew up in Quebec in a quadrilingual…
By Samantha Greenfield || Senior Staff Writer This past week, the Common Hour speaker was Mark McDaniel, professor of psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. McDaniel conducts research in…
By Samantha Greenfield || Senior Staff Writer Common Hour, entitled “Drugs, Pleasure and Pain: The Two Faces of Janus,” was given by Dr. George Koob. He is the Director of…
By Samantha Greenfield || Senior Staff Writer Common Hour, entitled “Green City, Clean Waters,” was given by the Commissioner of the Philadelphia Water Department, Howard Neukrug. Neukrug is the Chief…
By Samantha Greenfield || Senior Staff Writer At last Thursday’s Common Hour, Professor Claire Potter gave a talk entitled “Beyond the Sex Wars: Histories of Anti-Pornography Feminism.” A professor of…
By Samantha Greenfield || Senior Staff Writer This week’s Common Hour speaker, Jeffrey Alexander, titled his speech “Cultural Trauma, Social Solidarity, and Moral Responsibility: Reactions to the Holocaust…
By Samantha Greenfield, Staff Writer || This past week’s Common Hour speaker, Stanley A. Mertzman, Dr. Earl D. Stage and Mary E. Stage professor of geosciences, is the recipient of the…
By Samantha Greenfield II Senior Staff Writer This past week, the Common Hour lecture was given by author and professor of English at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, Christopher…
By Samantha Greenfield II Staff Writer Robert Barnett, Director of Modern Tibet Studies Program at Columbia University, spoke at this past week’s Common Hour about the conflict between the government…
By Samantha Greenfield II This past Common Hour Kelly McMasters, visiting assistant professor of English, shared her story of survival and activism. McMasters told the audience the story…
By Samantha Greenfield II Staff Writer Franklin and Marshall’s own Mary Ann Levine, associate professor of anthropology, spoke to the audience at this week’s Common Hour, which took place in…
By Samantha Greenfield, Staff Writer|| This week’s Common Hour speaker, Jeremy Jackson, is a senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institute and a professor of oceanography emeritus at the Scripps Institution…
By Samantha Greenfield, Staff Writer|| This week’s Common Hour combined speakers and dance performances to commemorate the First World War. “Dance, like some other art forms, is a non-verbal form,” said…
By Samantha Greenfield, Staff Writer || This week’s Common Hour was the second Common Hour in honor of the centenary of the First World War. Attendees were asked to pin a…
By Samantha Greenfield, Staff Writer || This past week’s Common Hour, the audience had the pleasure of listening to distinguished historian and this year’s Mueller fellow, Jay Winter. This common hour…