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By Sarah Frazer ||Staff Writer This past Wednesday, Lilliana Mason, a professor at the University of Maryland, gave a talk on political polarization in the United States. Mason began working on…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer Photos courtesy of BBC.com Professor Fontana sought to answer the question, “What is Brexit?” this past Thursday in his presentation on Brexit, which was…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer The question of free speech on college campuses has been the topic of many conversations and was the subject that Dean Richter and Don…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer For Common Hour this past week, Bassam Eid, a Palestinian Human Rights Activist, spoke about what he sees as the biggest obstacles to peace…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer This Week’s Common Hour featured Jason de León, the Director of The Undocumented Migration Project and an Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, who detailed the experiences of…
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 Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer At the beginning of this semester, F&M students and faculty returned to campus to find that Lancaster County, and consequently F&M, had significantly changed…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer This week’s Common Hour, entitled “Preventing the Next War: Creating an Effective Inside/Outside Strategy,” featured Medea Benjamin, an activist, author, and founder of CODEPINK…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer This past Tuesday, April 10th, students held a protest outside of Old Main that was in response to what they viewed as insufficient concern…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer This past Monday, F&M’s Government Department and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department co-sponsored a talk given by Leslie Hunter, an F&M alumna who…
By Sarah Frazer || Contributing Writer This past Friday F&M’s Colleges Against Cancer club (CAC) hosted F&M’s 10th annual Relay for Life in the ASFC. The purpose of the event,…
By Sarah Frazer || Contributing Writer This week’s Common Hour, featuring author, scholar, and activist Jackson Katz, focused on violence against women, an issue which he argued is one of…
By Sarah Frazer || Contributing Writer This week’s Common Hour was given by Paul Bloom, an award-winning author, renowned scientist, and professor of psychology at Yale University. In his latest…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer On Tuesday, April 4, Ruth Klüger, a survivor of the Holocaust, spoke at Franklin & Marshall about her experiences in Nazi Germany and the…
By Sarah Frazer || Staff Writer On Wednesday, March 29, Aldon Morris, who is currently a Sociology and African American Studies Professor at Northwestern University, gave an informative talk on…