First-year Spotlight: Johansen Vargas
By Jonah Fisher || Contributing Writer To start off our first-year spotlights this year, I wanted to stay a little…
Summation of a Baseball Game by the Apathetic Spectator
By Josh Dratler | Contributing Writer I fondly recall my grandfather’s splendid tales of watching the Brooklyn Dodgers—today based out…
F&M Welcomes Hausman Lecturer: “Swimmers” Author Julie Otsuka
By Zach Long | Contributing Writer On Tuesday, September 13th, the Department of English re-welcomed Julie Otsuka to the F&M…
New Issues Take Forefront in PA Midterms: What You Need to Know
By Erin Maxwell || Editor-in-Chief At 7 a.m. on November 8th, Pennsylvania voters will be able to make their voices…
Food Price Inflation & the Student Experience: A Sodexo Series, Part I
By Sarah Nicell || News Editor Nationally, a significant increase in prices across a wide range of products—most notably fuel…
Healthcare Affordability and Access are Crucial to Mitigating the Health Impacts of Environmental Degradation
By Florian Direny || Contributing Writer Anyone even remotely familiar with American political discourse likely knows that healthcare access continues…
Fires of Controversy Following Amazon’s “Rings of Power”
By Jonah Fisher || Contributing Writer With the release of the new “Rings of Power” TV show on Amazon Prime,…
Kiwibots: The Food-Delivery Robots We Didn’t Ask For
By Lily Vining | Campus Life Editor Students returning to campus this fall would likely have noticed the cute, Wall-E-esque…
No More Ben and John? Reckoning with our Namesake’s Ugly History and Reshaping Our Future
By Lily Vining || Campus Life Editor Ben and John, F&M’s mascots since 2007, have taken a hiatus from the…
You Are Not Alone: A Closeted History of Franklin & Marshall College Documentary Review, with PJ Howard
By Sarah Nicell || News Editor After one and a half years of research, interviewing, filming, editing, and digging through…
Op-Ed: How to Be More Socially Adept- What I’ve Learned
By Florian Direny || Contributing Writer In an increasingly virtual world and with the rapid rise of online communication, people…
Op-Ed: Learning to Say Goodbye
By Samantha Griffith || Contributing Writer Goodbye. It’s one word, two syllables, yet carries so much weight. One word that…
Is Tik-Tok Ruining Our Attention Spans?
By Emily Hanson || Layout Assistant In the beginning of March I decided I’d had enough of my addiction to…
Op-Ed: F&M is Making Changes
By Tira Mercadante || Layout Assistant Some of you may have heard rumors about F&M cutting certain language programs and…
The Best Way to Judge a Person, Based On Me
By Darij Kulchyckyj | | Contributing Writer Many people like to choose a judgment of character and personality via spending…