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By Sarah Frazer ||Staff Writer This past Wednesday, Lilliana Mason, a professor at the University of Maryland, gave a talk on political polarization in the United States. Mason began working…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer Photos courtesy of BBC.com Professor Fontana sought to answer the question, “What is Brexit?” this past Thursday in his presentation on Brexit, which was…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer The question of free speech on college campuses has been the topic of many conversations and was the subject that Dean Richter and Don…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer For Common Hour this past week, Bassam Eid, a Palestinian Human Rights Activist, spoke about what he sees as the biggest obstacles to peace…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer This Week’s Common Hour featured Jason de León, the Director of The Undocumented Migration Project and an Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan,…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer During this week’s Common Hour, Dr. Emily Wilson, who is a professor of Classical Studies and the Graduate Chair of Comparative Literature and Literary…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer At the beginning of this semester, F&M students and faculty returned to campus to find that Lancaster County, and consequently F&M, had significantly changed…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer This week’s Common Hour, entitled “Preventing the Next War: Creating an Effective Inside/Outside Strategy,” featured Medea Benjamin, an activist, author, and founder of CODEPINK…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer This past Tuesday, April 10th, students held a protest outside of Old Main that was in response to what they viewed as insufficient concern…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer This past Monday, F&M’s Government Department and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department co-sponsored a talk given by Leslie Hunter, an F&M alumna who…
By Sarah Frazer || Contributing Writer This past Friday F&M’s Colleges Against Cancer club (CAC) hosted F&M’s 10th annual Relay for Life in the ASFC. The purpose of the event,…
By Sarah Frazer || Contributing Writer This week’s Common Hour, featuring author, scholar, and activist Jackson Katz, focused on violence against women, an issue which he argued is one of…
By Sarah Frazer || Contributing Writer This week’s Common Hour was given by Paul Bloom, an award-winning author, renowned scientist, and professor of psychology at Yale University. In his latest…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer On Tuesday, April 4, Ruth Klüger, a survivor of the Holocaust, spoke at Franklin & Marshall about her experiences in Nazi Germany and the…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer On Wednesday, March 29, Aldon Morris, who is currently a Sociology and African American Studies Professor at Northwestern University, gave an informative talk on…