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By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Last Wednesday, F&M’s Interfraternity Council (IFC) conducted elections for its eight executive board positions. The IFC functions as a judicial and advocacy group that…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Dan Porterfield, president of the College, hosted a forum for students, faculty, and professional staff last Tuesday, Nov. 17. The forum was originally set…
Erin Moyer || Senior Editor On Friday, Nov 20, the Lancaster County Community Foundation hosted its annual Extraordinary Give, commonly known as the ExtraGive. The ExtraGive is a 24-hour, marathon…
Erin Moyer || Senior Editor On Friday, F&M hosted a vigil to observe Transgender Day of Remembrance. Students, faculty, and members of the College’s administration gathered on Hartman Green to…
Christa Rodriguez || Staff Writer This Thursday’s Common Hour featured Danielle McGuire, Assistant Professor of History at Wayne State University and a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.…
By Joe Giordano || Staff Writer After 10 weeks of the NFL season, only two unbeaten teams remain. The defending champion New England Patriots have come out this season…
By Joe Yamulla || Sports Editor Last week, I was fortunate enough to embark on the sports trip of a lifetime. I found myself traveling with the Philadelphia 76ers on…
By Erin Moyer || Senior Editor I always knew there were, say, some bigots in Kansas. I wasn’t ignorant to the fact that there were still some ignorant people bopping around out…
By Gaby Joseph || Contributing Writer When my grandfather was eight years old, he, his mother, and his sister voyaged on the S.S. Saint Louis from Germany to Havana, Cuba. That ship…
By Anne Dolan || Contributing Writer This Thursday, Danielle McGuire gave a Common Hour titled “A Black Woman’s Body was Never Her Own: Sexual Violence and the Civil Rights Movement.” She…
By Nicholas Riebel || Staff Writer During a dinner on Wednesday with Donnell Bailey ’17, president of the Diplomatic Congress, we discussed diversity issues on campus, and he invited me…
By Preman Koshar || Arts & Entertainment Editor This week, for a change of pace, I’ll be reviewing a modern Disney classic: Ratatouille. I had seen Ratatouille before, not long…
By Erin Moyer || Senior Editor Hello, it’s me. I was wondering if after all these articles, you’d like to hear from me. Well, you’ve probably heard enough from me,…
By Steven Viera || News Editor Timothy Bechtel, visiting professor of geosciences, is part of an international team that is tasked with developing an effective, inexpensive, and easy to use…
By Steven Viera || Senior Editor Dan Porterfield, president of the College, announced in an email in late October that work would begin on a series of major construction projects.…