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By Ellyn Fritz || Contributing Writer This past Thursday, novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and activist, Sandra Cisneros spoke during Common Hour. Sandra Cisneros is the 2019 Mueller Fellow…
By Katherine Coble || News Editor On Thursday, November 7, Franklin & Marshall’s campus played host to one of the most preeminent historians of the last century: Joan Wallach Scott.…
By Isabel Paris || Campus Life Editor This week’s common hour discussed the importance and the unspoken aspects of mental health regarding student-athletes. Lydia Bell, an associate director of research…
By Samantha Milowitz || Staff Writer This week’s common hour featured the Gruver family: parents, Rae Anne Gruver and Stephen Gruver, who lost their eldest son, Max Gruver, due to hazing…
Photos by Mira Lerner || Photographer and Contributing Writer Blurb by Isabel Paris || Campus Life Editor Eddie S. Glaude Jr. visited Franklin and Marshall’s campus to be a Common…
By Hannah Berman ||Contributing Writer This past week’s Common Hour held in the Alumni Sports and Fitness Center on September 5th held an audience of approximately 1,200 people who had…
By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor As soon as Catherine Drennan started teaching chemistry, she noticed an issue with her teaching style, and indeed the teaching style of most…
By Isabel Paris | Layout Assistant At Common Hour this past Thursday, Professor Cathy Drennan, shared her research on the future of the classroom. Drennan first began to notice, as…
By Christa Rodriguez ||Campus Life Editor Common Hour this past Thursday featured two representatives from NASA who talked about its future directions both as an agency and as a workplace. Nicole…
By Allison Shockley || Contributing Writer Photos courtesy of nbcnews.com What’s more American than driving? For many of us, this is a privilege we often overlook. The little plastic card that…
By Amanda Leonard ||Staff Writer In 2008, the United States Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, which seeks to provide “clear, strong, consistent, enforceable standards addressing discrimination.” Jeanne Kincaid, nationally-known…
By Christa Rodriguez || Campus Life Editor Photos courtesy of patrickmcmullan.com William Morris Endeavor agent Jonathan Lomma ’99 presented at Common Hour last Thursday on what he has learned through…
By Bette Scherr || Staff Writer & Anna Goorevich || Opinion Editor Last Thursday, the words, “Bassam Eid is a traitor” hung on the protest tree for all of F&M’s…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer During this week’s Common Hour, Dr. Emily Wilson, who is a professor of Classical Studies and the Graduate Chair of Comparative Literature and Literary…
By Amanda Leonard || Copy Editor Jerry Taylor’s Common Hour talk on November 8th illustrated that deeply-rooted and seemingly eternal values can change. Taylor spent most of his life firmly…