Best Crepe Ever
By Rohail Spear || Managing Editor The following is the recipe for the best crepe I have ever eaten. Ingredients: Crepe batter (any online recipe will do) Mozzarella cheese Feta…
What’s New with Dining? Kiwibots, Renovations, Online Orders, and More: A Sodexo Series, Part II
By Sarah Nicell || News Editor After a long day of academics, extracurriculars, and overall exhaustion, there is only one thing more important to college students than a well-deserved nap:…
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 closer to home and introduce the F&M community to one…
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 of Los Angeles—at historic Ebbetts Field. But in the six-and-a-half…
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 campus to host an insightful craft talk in the Writers…
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 heard in what is being considered one of the most…
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 and food—has left Americans with questions. Inflation is harming most…
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 to be at the center of mainstream debates, and for…
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, the global corporate giant leaped out of the frying pan…
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 robots stationed outside the dining facilities. These 12 bots, produced…
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 spotlight in recent years. Image courtesy of Franklin & Marshall…
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 decades of archives, PJ Howard ‘21 finally released the largest…
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 are becoming less and less engaged in in-person interactions. A…
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 serves as a full sentence and can change everything. There…
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 my phone. There was so much time that I could…