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By Erin Maxwell || News Editor Freezing temperatures hitting below 0℉ hit Texas this week as winter storm system Uri coated over 71% of the United States in snow. As…
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By Erin Maxwell || News Editor Freezing temperatures hitting below 0℉ hit Texas this week as winter storm system Uri coated over 71% of the United States in snow. As…
By Evan Madden || Contributing Writer Usually F&M has no trouble finding enough eager students to fill all essential student positions, but there is currently a shortage of student employees…
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 Evan Madden || Contributing Writer While the start of the fall semester is often a blend of nerve-wracking and exciting for incoming freshmen, the spring is when freshmen traditionally…
By Daniel Robillard || Investigative Reporter As snow blanketed Franklin & Marshall College this past week, students returned to campus for the spring semester. The College remains on High Alert…
By Lily Vining || Staff Writer An attack on democracy has rattled Myanmar as a military coup disrupted the first convention of the elected governing body since November, following an…
By Erin Maxwell || News Editor Early in the day on January 6th, shouts of “fight like hell!” echoed across the National Mall, as domestic terrorists staged an insurrection at…
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 Daniel Robillard || Investigative Reporter The recent spike in COVID-19 cases at F&M this past week has led some students, rather than waiting weeks to be tested by the…
By Isabel Paris||Managing Editor & Ellyn Fritz||News Editor Recruitment for sororities, including Franklin & Marshall, is the time when new members are welcomed into the different organizations and allows sororities…
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 Daniel Robillard || Investigative Reporter Franklin & Marshall is seeing its highest spike in COVID-19 cases since the College began keeping track after opening campus in late August. There…
Monday, November 2nd States Brace for Unprecedented Coronavirus Wave https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/covid-19-cases-deaths-rising-rapid-rate-ahead-election-day-n1245780 Hurricane Eta Threatens Central America https://www.wsj.com/articles/hurricane-eta-bears-down-on-central-america-11604348278 Johnny Depp Loses Libel Cases Against Amber Heard https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-54779430 Tuesday, November 3rd An Anticlimactic…
By Ellyn Fritz || News Editor & Sarah Nicell || Layout Assistant The Department of Public Safety, commonly referred to as P-Safe or DPS at Franklin & Marshall College, often…
By Lily Vining || Contributing Writer “I easily WIN the Presidency of the United States with LEGAL VOTES CAST,” reads a tweet from President Trump posted on November 6 at…