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By Nina Kegelman || Copy Editor Lindsay Wanner || Contributing Writer Emily Grossbauer || Contributing Writer I vividly remember the release of Taylor Swift’s third studio album Speak Now on…
By Nina Kegelman|| Staff Writer This week’s common hour speaker was Professor Julie Smith, MS of Webster University School of Communications. A world-wide speaker and author of the book Master…
By Nina Kegelman || Staff Writer “Yusef Salaam, do you have anything to say before we sentence you?” Dr. Yusef Salaam, one of the “Exonerated Five,” a group of teenagers…
By Nina Kegelman || Contributing Writer This week’s Common Hour speaker was Dr. Kimberly Potowski, a Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Potowski directs a…
By Nina Kegelman || Contributing Writer To be honest, I have a hard time explaining the plot of the 2019 Safdie brothers film Uncut Gems, starring Adam Sandler, Idina Menzel,…
By Nina Kegelman || Contributing Writer This Thursday’s Common Hour speaker was science and nature author David Quammen, whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New York…
By Nina Kegelman || Staff Writer Tuesday, April 17, the Budget Priorities Committee held a Forum on the College Budget in the Boncheck Lecture Hall during Uncommon Hour. Led primarily…
By Nina Kegelman || Contributing Writer After months of exhaustive preparation, the F&M Players production of Legally Blonde ran last weekend. In this stage adaptation of the 2001 film of…
By Nina Kegelman || Contributing Writer In August President Trump issued a memorandum banning transgender people from military service. This proposal, which was announced via Twitter, would prohibit the admission…
By Nina Kegelman || Contributing Writer Sometime before my first year here at Franklin & Marshall began, I saw this picture floating around Facebook depicting the traveling dynamic of wolf…