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Despite obvious darkness, Push the Sky redefines alternative rockers BY TESS MELCHREIT ’14 Contributing Writer Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, hailing from Melbourne, have released their 15th studio album,…
Designers find different ways to make cold hot BY ELIZABETH FURINO ’16 Staff Writer February’s Fashion Week, projecting styles for the Fall of 2013, proved to be more about the…
Australian brothers live up to band’s name with much anticipated release BY MAYA HARRINGTON ’16 Contributing Writer For those of you who haven’t heard, Atlas Genius is a newly-emerged band…
After two years, critically-acclaimed television show searching for new brain BY GEORGIANNA PISANO-GOETZ ’15 Contributing Writer AMC’s popular show The Walking Dead is losing its second show runner in three…
BY BRIONA PRICE ’16 Staff Writer I worry way too much. For example, I should be used to lab by now, but I still get extremely anxious each Friday before…
BY PATRICK HUGHES ’15 Contributing Writer “Oh ye that would have the cocoanut wrong side outwards.” Linguistic relativity proposes that the properties of a culture’s language — its syntax, semantics and vernacular — shape…
BY DYLAN JENNINGS ’14 Contributing Writer So, I recently had to visit the emergency room at Lancaster Regional. Don’t worry, unlike most college students, it wasn’t because of intoxication (not…
BY GRACE MEREDITH ’16 Contributing Writer In America, it seems there is always a new cause emerging either from social media, the social charity scene, or college campuses. Sometimes it…
Dear Dr. SHAC, It’s midterm season, and you know what that means — books to read, papers to write, and countless hours in the library. The problem is no matter how hard…
BY MARK DOURMASHKIN ’14 Staff Writer This past weekend the men’s basketball team experienced the highest and lowest points of the season. F&M entered the postseason conference tournament looking to…
BY SHIRA KIPNEES ’15 Staff Writer Nicholas Montemarano, associate professor of English and chair of the English department, recently had his new novel, The Book of Why published by Little,…
BY THOMAS ROSS ’14 Staff Writer On Feb. 18, the National Basketball Association (NBA) lost the most revered owner in league history, Dr. Jerry Buss, who won 10 NBA championships…
BY DYLAN GORDON ’14 Staff Writer It is time for the 2013 NFL Combine, and I could not be more excited. These are some of my favorite days of the…
BY JONATHAN PRESSMAN ’14 Senior Staff WriterWith the opening of Salon 717 just below the College Row Apartments, students can now get their hair cut and styled affordably, in a…
BY KENDRA POIRIER ’15 Contributing Writer For most F&M students, course registration brings about undue anxiety and visions of waiting in long lines outside the College Center. The F&M administration…