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By Lily Vining || Managing Editor Members of ISAB and performers. Photo courtesy of Munahil Sultana. On Tuesday, February 21st, The International Student Advisory Board (ISAB) hosted a Multilingual Poetry…
By Lily Vining | Campus Life Editor In celebration of International Mother Language Day on February 21st, International Student Advisory Board (ISAB) hosted a multilingual poetry reading in the Steinman…
By Sofia Netto || Copy Editor Photo courtesy of Erin Maxwell. Winter break is over and two weeks have passed since the beginning of the spring semester. For those who…
By Sarah Nicell || Campus Life Editor After an academic year without international students on campus, Franklin & Marshall College has once again welcomed hundreds of people from around the…
By Rohail Spear || Layout Assistant Aryaa Ogale, a first-year at F&M, usually wakes up between 11 am and 1 pm and sometimes doesn’t go to bed until 5 am.…
By Xinghan Ma || Contributing Writer 2020 is about to end. From history, we have learned how an infectious disease can endanger the whole human civilization, yet still, our society…
By Hongyuan Guo || Contributing Writer The number of years is never important; what’s important is our experiences. Experiences made this year special for me. At the start of the…
By Ellyn Fritz || News Editor On July 6th, the Department of Homeland Security announced that international students on an F-1 or M-1 visa could not remain in the United…
By June Sanchez || Investigative Reporter Franklin & Marshall’s international students have mixed opinions regarding the school’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. While some were quicker to praise the school…
Sojin Shin || Op-Eds Editor A new disease of any kind is scary. There is no vaccine to prevent it, and without proper facilities and medical support, the prognosis becomes…
By Hannah LaChance || Contributing Writer Thanks to media portrayal, books like Eat, Pray, Love, and childhood movies like Selena Gomez’s Monte Carlo, the idealization of traveling internationally is culturally…