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By Anna Synakh || Managing Editor I have recently realized that I do not love F&M the way I loved it my freshman year. To be honest, I am not…
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By Anna Synakh || Managing Editor I have recently realized that I do not love F&M the way I loved it my freshman year. To be honest, I am not…
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor In a primetime interview preceding last week’s Super Bowl, President Biden restated his campaign promise of re-opening the majority of public schools by his…
By Jeremy Mauser || Contributing Writer It’s January 4, and the nasal swab is shoved up my nose. This was far from my first time being tested for COVID-19, considering…
By Erin Maxwell || Layout Assistant As an RNA virus, mutations leading to new variants of the coronavirus tend to appear once or twice a month, usually without a major…
By Sarah Nicell || Layout Assistant The United States has officially surmounted 400,000 total deaths from COVID-19, a figure so devastating that it becomes impossible to visualize. Approaching ten months…
By Erin Maxwell || Staff Writer If you’re still able to access your pre-COVID memories, you’ll remember that F&M’s 2020 commencement had already been steeped in controversy before the pandemic…
By Samantha Milowitz || Op-Eds Editor A typical American inauguration is usually pretty extra: There are parades, grand balls, luncheons, thousands of people lining down the Mall of Washington D.C.…
The following comes from an anonymous author; due to the current political climate in China, it can be dangerous to speak out against the government. Whether it’s jailing civilians for…
By Samantha Milowitz || Op-Eds Editor With the COVID vaccine becoming readily available to people across the United States, it’s important to know the facts. While I am not a…
By Sylvain Falquet || Contributing Writer A relatively small occurrence in an eventful year gave me a bit of “normalcy.” Despite the challenges of online learning, I was able to…
By Xinghan Ma || Contributing Writer 2020 is about to end. From history, we have learned how an infectious disease can endanger the whole human civilization, yet still, our society…
By Hongyuan Guo || Contributing Writer The number of years is never important; what’s important is our experiences. Experiences made this year special for me. At the start of the…
Monday, November 9th Promising Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Announced Defense Secretary Mike Esper Fired by the Trump Administration DOJ’s Top Election Crimes Official Quits After Election Fraud Claims Continue https://www.npr.org/2020/11/10/933548664/dojs-top-election-crimes-prosecutor-resigns-to-protest-allegations-of-election-f Tuesday,…
By Sarah Nicell || Layout Assistant “You’ll all have a ball,” George tells his house guests in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—a 1962 play written by Edward Albee. As though…
By Allie Sokol|| Layout Assistant As I drove out of my driveway in August, I gave my house one last look, unsure when I would see it next. With the…