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By Samantha Greenfield || Senior Staff Writer At last Thursday’s Common Hour, Professor Claire Potter gave a talk entitled “Beyond the Sex Wars: Histories of Anti-Pornography Feminism.” A professor of…
By Ellie Gavin || Layout Assistant On Tuesday, F&M students had the opportunity to attend an intimate lunch in the New College House meeting room and have a conversation with…
By Samantha Greenfield || Senior Staff Writer This week’s Common Hour speaker, Jeffrey Alexander, titled his speech “Cultural Trauma, Social Solidarity, and Moral Responsibility: Reactions to the Holocaust and Other…
By Ellie Gavin || Layout Assistant This past weekend, F&M College Theatre delivered its production of Anton Chekhov’s 1900 play, “Three Sisters.” The show had four performances (February 19-22) at…
By Samantha Greenfield || Senior Staff Writer Dr. Barry Schwartz, a Psychologist and the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at the department of Psychology at Swarthmore…
By Arielle Lipset II Campus Life Editor Christopher Bakken is a writer unafraid to explore different parts of the world in addition to different genres. His book, Honey, Olives, Octopus:…
By Samantha Greenfield II Senior Staff Writer This past week, the Common Hour lecture was given by author and professor of English at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, Christopher Bakken. Bakken…
By Abigail Quint II Editor in Chief When David Ganse ’86 saw the space in the basement of the Lancaster Seminary, he knew that his bookstore, Adamstown Books, had found…
By Brianne Simone II Contributing Writer Peter Rock, who was lucky enough to be born with a name already suited to an existence as a writer, visited F&M on the…
By Samantha Greenfield II Staff Writer Robert Barnett, Director of Modern Tibet Studies Program at Columbia University, spoke at this past week’s Common Hour about the conflict between the government…
By Samantha Greenfield II This past Common Hour Kelly McMasters, visiting assistant professor of English, shared her story of survival and activism. McMasters told the audience the story of her…
By Indira Rahman II Contributing Writer Last December, following the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, several students approached Marci Nelligan and Kelly McMasters, visiting assistant professors of English,upset…