First Year Spotlight: Amaya McIntyre-Taylor
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor “School shut down on my birthday,” says Amaya McIntyre-Taylor, a first-year student from the…
Students, Involved: Franklin and Marshall’s Club Fair Brings Campus to Life
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor For the first time in a year, brightly colored signs studded Hartman Green, each…
Life After the Vaccine: New Moderna Study Measures Transmission of Vaccinated College Students
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor On Friday, Mar. 26, the COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN) announced to the public a…
Spike or Surge? PORT Announcement Reflects Concerning National Trend
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor The subject line, “URGENT- Please read” sent shockwaves through campus this Thursday, Mar. 25,…
A Third Vaccine Enters the Ring: Johnson & Johnson Approved for Emergency Use
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor On Saturday, February 27th, the Federal Food, and Drug Administration officially approved Johnson &…
Anti-Asian American Hate Crime at Blue Line: A Disturbing Trend in Discrimination Rears its Head on F&M’s Campus
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor At 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 6th, two Lancaster residents entered Franklin and Marshall’s…
“It’s Life and Death”: Texans Freeze as Power Outages Continue
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor Freezing temperatures hitting below 0℉ hit Texas this week as winter storm system Uri…
Biden Calls School Closures a “National Emergency”: Health Experts Balance the Needs of Students and Public Safety
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor In a primetime interview preceding last week’s Super Bowl, President Biden restated his campaign…
Trump Refuses to Show Face at Senate Conviction Trial: Claims of Unconstitutionality Threaten the Life of the Case
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor Early in the day on January 6th, shouts of “fight like hell!” echoed across…
New COVID-19 Variants Threaten Increased Transmissibility
By Erin Maxwell || Layout Assistant As an RNA virus, mutations leading to new variants of the coronavirus tend to…
…And All I Got Was This Lousy Keychain
By Erin Maxwell || Staff Writer If you’re still able to access your pre-COVID memories, you’ll remember that F&M’s 2020…
OP-ED: WHY TRUMP’S CLAIMS WEAKEN DEMOCRACY, TRUMP’S ACCUSATIONS OF FRAUD UNDERMINES ELECTORAL LEGITAMACY
By Erin Maxwell || Layout Assistant On January 20, 2021, President-Elect Joe Biden will be sworn into the highest office,…
Iowa Continues to Grapple with August Derecho Destruction
By Erin Maxwell || Layout Assistant In the apocalyptic context of a global pandemic, raging forest fires, and a tenuous…
Trump associate, personal friend Roger Stone sentenced to three years in prison
By Erin Maxwell || Staff Writer This past Thursday, Donald Trump’s longtime political confidant Roger Stone was sentenced to over…