First-year perspective on housing lottery, limited rooming options
By Josh Friedman || Staff Writer What a year it has been. As expected, a first year like me realized just how much of a wake-up call college would be.…
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By Josh Friedman || Staff Writer What a year it has been. As expected, a first year like me realized just how much of a wake-up call college would be.…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor The “Take Back Our Campus” protest was meant to be a silent sit-in outside of Old Main to demonstrate the importance of safety on…
By Tori Shaw || Contributing Writer “Try not to worry too much about your grades” – this is the classic line our professors spoon-feed to us in the name of…
By Samantha Milowitz || Layout Assistant On Tuesday, I attended the open conversation on security and parties on campus. As a first year, I was curious to see the members…
Another Open Letter to the Franklin and Marshall College Administration was written by the entirety of The Sexual Assault and Violence Elimination Executive Board. If you have any specific questions…
By Shawn Kim || Staff Writer Professor Dean Hammer is a Professor of Classics and Professor of Government at Franklin & Marshall College. In one of the first classes of…
By Ruby Van Dyk || Staff Writer On April 6th, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. He was in Memphis, Tennessee rallying to support striking sanitation workers who had…
By Danielle Sang || Contributing Writer Third-party security has been at the center of attention on our campus since the beginning of this 2017-2018 academic year. As a leader of…
By Margaret L. Hazlett || Dean of the College To the Editor: Regarding the March 29 op-ed in The College Reporter on third-party security, it was very disappointing to review the…
By Lior Wolf ’19 & John Vallacchi ’18 || Contributing Writers People are entitled to share their opinions, and we are entitled to base our support (or lack thereof) of those…
By Ethan Beller || Contributing Writer As of 3:23 pm on March 23rd, 2018 Donald J. Trump had been president for one year, 62 days, two hours, 36 minutes, and…
By Isabel Paris || Staff Writer The Conservative Political Action Conference held almost a month ago, consisted of President Trump speaking and all the attendees praising his work thus far.…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor It is safe to say our campus community, particularly F&M’s female population, has been shaken by the events of last week. A 47-year-old Lancaster…
By Mike Krauss ’71 || Contributing Writer With thanks to the late Professor Emeritus, John H. Vanderzell PhD, with whom I had two challenging semesters of constitutional law. It is…
By Josh Friedman || Contributing Writer On Wednesday Feb. 28, I almost bought a gun. Well… not really. I went to Gun Gallery inc. — a local gun store that…