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BY JUSTIN KOZLOSKI ’13 Senior Editor In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the department of history hosted “The Glorious March to Liberty.” The Emancipation Proclamation, resulting…
BY NATHAN MCCLELLAN ’16 Contributing Writer Holed up in my room on Monday evening due to Sandy’s reproachful presence outside the window, I turned on the television and flicked to…
BY CONNOR BURNS ’13 Senior Staff Writer I’ve been saying it for months: it looks like Barack Obama will be reelected this Tuesday, Nov. 6. Hurricane Sandy gave him the…
BY SHIRA KIPNEES ’15 Staff Writer According to an F&M poll released Wednesday, Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, is closing the lead Barack Obama, president of the United States,…
BY CATHY BROWN ’14 Staff Writer The College announced in a recent press release the implementation of a loan relief program directed at middle-income students. The College tested the program…
BY STEVEN VIERA ’16 Layout Assistant Hurricane Sandy, a category-one hurricane, hit F&M early this past week. The storm caused heavy rain and winds, leading to a two-day closure of…
BY JAMES BOLAND ’15 Contributing Writer The men’s soccer team took the field Oct. 20 for the seventh conference game of the season against the Washington College Shoremen. The Diplomats,…
BY JONATHAN PRESSMAN ’14 Copy Editor In the conference championship meet, featuring a total of six nationally ranked teams, the F&M men’s and women’s cross country teams battled to sixth…
BY MARK ROSSMAN ’14 Sports Editor The club men’s ice hockey team is up and running, already having played two games this weekend, Friday against Lehigh University and Saturday against…
BY LAUREN BEJZAK ’13 Editor-in-Chief The College’s women’s ultimate frisbee team, Code Beluga, is co-sponsoring a home tournament this weekend Nov. 3 and 4 with the men’s team, the Narwhals.…
BY ELIZABETH FURINO ’16 Staff Writer For Project Runway fanatics, the new season of All Stars, which aired on Lifetime at 9 p.m. Oct. 25, has already proven itself to…
BY CHARLOTTE HUGHES ’16, SLOANE MARKLEY ’14 Staff Writer, Managing Editor Directed by Jon Foley Sherman, visiting professor of theater, The theater department’s latest production of Caryl Churchill’s dark, overtly…
BY LAUREN BEJZAK ’13 Editor-in-Chief There are those who regard the horror genre as an art already complete; the classics are thus, and these are the only films worth seeing…
BY ABIGAIL QUINT ’15 Associate News Editor Diane Ackerman, the 2012 Hausman Lecture speaker, spoke about her writing style and read from her nonfiction work, The Zookeeper’s Wife, at The…
BY JULIA CINQUEGRANI ’16 Staff Writer When Lindsey Pollak, spokesperson for LinkedIn, expert on career and workplace trends, and bestselling author of Getting from College to Career, began her workshop…