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By Isabel Paris || Contributing Writer Black Panther directed by Ryan Coogler has smashed any expectation of how the public was going to react. The film has obliterated records, becoming…
By Abigail Sokolsky || Layout Assistant Our first film is The Incredibles. The first of its saga, The Incredibles was originally released in 2004 and quickly became a major success.…
By Josh Cropanzano || Contributing Writer On February 16, 2018, it was announced by the Department of Justice that 13 Russians would be indicted for helping the Trump campaign in…
By Sunya Hassan || Layout Assistant The violence in Syria has created one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time. From a pre-war population of over 11 million people,…
By Boris Zyumbyulev || Staff Writer “What did we do? We murdered babies in their cots?” This is what international NGO Oxfam’s chief executive, Mark Goldring, asked during an interview…
By Nick Stolte || Contributing Writer The 2016 Republican Presidential Primary was a battle for the soul of both the Republican Party and the United States. The Republicans made massive…
By Gabby Goodwin || Sports Editor This past Saturday, in their home opener against Frostburg State at Shadeck Stadium, the No. 11 Franklin & Marshall Men’s Lacrosse team crushed the…
By Ruby Van Dyk || Staff Writer The AR-15 used in the Florida shooting was legally purchased by the teenage gunman who committed the atrocity. But what exactly is a…
By Anna Goorevich || Op-Eds Editor After a two-month hiatus, the competition in the UEFA Champions League has finally started to heat up again as the first leg of the…
By Vanessa Chen || Contributing Writer This past week’s Common Hour speaker was Kathryn Bond Stockton, the distinguished professor of English at The University of Utah. She is also the…
By Samantha Milowitz || Layout Assistant Growing up, I participated in mandatory fire drills; we would line up against the door, laughing and not taking anything too seriously as the…
By Shawn Kim || Staff Writer Professor Nimershiem is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at F&M. She is teaching two sections of the Connections 2 Course “Shape of Space” this…
By Isabel Paris || Contributing Writer Just as many bands continue to change their brand and their sound, so does Fall Out Boy when their seventh album dropped in late…
By Ruby Van Dyk || Staff Writer On Thursday, February 15th, Benjamin Jerner came to F&M to discuss the current legal landscape impacting access to public bathrooms. Jerner, a lawyer…
By Sunya Hassan || Layout Assistant On February 11th, a Saratov Airlines flight crashed about 25 miles from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport. The Antonov An-148 aircraft held 65 passengers and 5…