GOP changing base, becoming more moderate
BY DOUG ADAIR ’16 Staff Writer While I’ve been trying to keep up with all the news coming out of Washington lately, I’ve been especially keen on keeping track of…
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BY DOUG ADAIR ’16 Staff Writer While I’ve been trying to keep up with all the news coming out of Washington lately, I’ve been especially keen on keeping track of…
BY GRACE MEREDITH ’16 Contributing Writer Every year, magazine devotees, film trivia addicts, and the average American film attendee unite and wait patiently for the annual Oscars. Sure enough, a…
BY SEAN SIMONEAU ’13 Contributing Writer While I wasn’t expecting the same turnout as last week’s Cornel West Common Hour, I was still a bit disheartened by the dramatic drop…
BY KYLE GRACZYK ’16 Contributing Writer For the first time in over 600 years, the head of the Catholic Church, the Pope, has voluntarily ceded power before death. Pope Benedict…
BY CONNOR BURNS ’13 Senior Staff During the 1980s, the American people came to regard the Democratic Party as the establishment of amnesty, abortion, and acid. They valued ideology over…
BY BRIONA PRICE ’16 Staff Writer I worry way too much. For example, I should be used to lab by now, but I still get extremely anxious each Friday before…
BY PATRICK HUGHES ’15 Contributing Writer “Oh ye that would have the cocoanut wrong side outwards.” Linguistic relativity proposes that the properties of a culture’s language — its syntax, semantics and vernacular — shape…
BY DYLAN JENNINGS ’14 Contributing Writer So, I recently had to visit the emergency room at Lancaster Regional. Don’t worry, unlike most college students, it wasn’t because of intoxication (not…
BY GRACE MEREDITH ’16 Contributing Writer In America, it seems there is always a new cause emerging either from social media, the social charity scene, or college campuses. Sometimes it…
[pullquote1 quotes=”true” align=”center”]Letter to the Editor[/pullquote1] It was obvious to anyone who met Eric that he was a warm and compassionate person. However, as his professor, I had the pleasure…
BY DOUGLAS ADAIR ‘16 Contributing Writer Making sense of the economy is challenging amidst so many varying opinions from people who understand far more than I do. It’s hard knowing…
BY DYLAN JENNINGS ’14 Contributing Writer If you have been reading the news coming out of England recently (and really, who doesn’t read the news coming out of our former…
BY PATRICK HUGHES ’15 Contributing Writer Added to the great mysteries of Franklin & Marshall College — how many minutes of my life does each Salsa Rico burrito cost; why are all…
BY DOUGLAS ADAIR ’16 Contributing Writer I don’t see eye-to-eye with many of the President’s decisions, but I do respect him, and I’m not too stubborn to admit when he’s…
BY JULIA SCAVICCHIO ’14 Contributing Writer Imagine yourself in space, completely separate from everything around you, and looking down at Earth. The ability for a person to actually step back…