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By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor Award winning storyteller Kimberly Dark performed at this past Thursday’s Common Hour, opening up a discussion about perceptions of body size in our…
By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor Michael Patrick Lynch, professor of philosophy and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut, gave this past Thursday’s Common Hour…
By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor This past Wednesday, September 13, F&M welcomed Emily St. John Mandel to campus. Her most recent novel, Station Eleven, is one of three…
By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor Eric Puchner, author and this year’s judge of the Jerome Irving Bank Memorial Prize, gave a craft talk at the Philadelphia Alumni Writers…
By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor On Thursday, January 26, V-Warriors hosted a Period Party in the Steinman College Center from 6p.m. to 9p.m. V-Warriors is a group of…
By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor This Thursday’s Common Hour, titled “Art & Aid: How Spoken Word, Instagram and Flash Mobs Helped Vulnerable Girls in School and Combat Ebola,”…
By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor This week’s Common Hour featured F&M Professor James Strick, who presented his talk, titled, “Sex, Lies and Bookburning: How Does a Scientist End…
By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor On Wednesday, Dr. Karen Tice gave a talk titled, “Gender and Race Politics of Beauty Pageants and Student Bodies in Higher Education.” Tice…
By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor This week’s Common Hour speaker, as part of F&M’s Sustainability Week, was Joel Sartore, a National Geographic wildlife photographer. Sartore presented on his…
Christa Rodriguez II Campus Life Editor The last Common Hour of the semester was held this past Thursday, with Robert Shibley’s talk “Liberty in Peril: The Free Speech Climate in…
By Christa Rodriguez || Assistant Campus Life Editor The F&M English department held its annual Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) this week, hosting events April 6th-8th at either the Green Room…
By Christa Rodriguez || Assistant Campus Life Editor This week’s Common Hour featured David G. Embrick, Ph. D, associate professor of sociology at Loyola University in Chicago. His presentation, “What…
By Christa Rodriguez || Assistant Campus Life Editor On Tuesday, March 1, F&M’s Philadelphia Alumni Writers House hosted a reading with Meghan Kenny, author and seventh grade English teacher at…
By Christa Rodriguez || Layout Assistant Saturday night, as a part of Civil Right’s Week at F&M, the Black Student Union hosted Apollo Night. Apollo Night at F&M was a…
By Christa Rodriguez || Layout Assistant Professor Lynn Matluck Brooks gave this week’s Common Hour talk, titled “Touched by Dance: Lineage and Learning.” Brooks is the Arthur and Kat herine…