Common Hour speaker Lisa Wade talks hookup culture on college campuses
By Vanessa Chen || Staff Writer This past week’s Common Hour talk, titled “The New Culture of Sex on Campus,” was brought to us by Lisa Wade, the Associate Professor…
English department and Writers House host annual Emerging Writers Festival
By Vanessa Chen and Christa Rodriguez || Staff Writer and Campus Life Editor The annual Emerging Writers Festival (EWF), hosted by the English Department and the Philadelphia Alumni Writers House,…
Nipun Mehta, founder of ServiceSpace, talks kindness at Common Hour
By Vanessa Chen || Staff Writer This week’s Common Hour speaker Nipun Mehta brought us his talk, “Being the Change Changes the Being: Acting on Instincts of Altruism and Compassion.”…
Contributing Writer describes Common Hour talk, interview with speaker
By Vanessa Chen || Contributing Writer This past week’s Common Hour speaker was Kathryn Bond Stockton, the distinguished professor of English at The University of Utah. She is also the…
Sociologist Professor Rachel Sherman presents research on wealthy americans
By Vanessa Chen || Contributing Writer Sociologist Rachel Sherman, who is an associate professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research at Eugene Lang College, came to F&M…
Imam Khalid Latif speaks at Common Hour on race, religion in America
By Vanessa Chen || Contributing Writer This week at Common Hour, Imam Khalid Latif brought us his talk—Breaking the Melting Pot: Realities of Race, Racism, and Religion in America. Latif…
Villeneuve’s Arrival creates conversation about grief through unique film techniques
By Vanessa Chen || Staff Writer As people living in a culture saturated with moving images, we have all acquired a degree of fluency in the language of film. Part of…
Grammy Awards cheat Beyoncé of Album of the Year award, inciting public conversation about race
By Vanessa Chen || Staff Writer Since its live airing on Monday, February 13, the 59th Annual Grammy Awards has been under fire for potential racism. This was incited by…
The School of Life YouTube channel realistically educates youth on variety of subjects
By Vanessa Chen || Staff Writer The School of Life is a YouTube Channel with close to two million subscribers and 442 videos. It covers a variety of topics such…
Magnolia Laurie opens “your land/my land” exhibition in Phillips Museum of Art
By Vanessa Chen || Staff Writer Franklin & Marshall Assistant Professor of Art Magnolia Laurie opened her art exhibition “your land/my land” in Phillips Museum of Art on Tuesday, January…
Writer reviews Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
By Vanessa Chen || Contributing Writer For a movie with the word “peculiar” in its title, the movie is anything but. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is directed by…
Contributing writer reviews summer hit movie Sausage Party
By Vanessa Chen || Contributing Writer Despite what my friends think, Sausage Party is indeed not an hour and a half of your life that you’ll never get back. Yes,…
Brechtian play impresses with strong performances, unusual styles
By Vanessa Chen || Contributing Writer The TDF production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle doesn’t begin so much as it throws itself at the audience—bare and curtain-less—with the whole cast…
Professor Medvic talks 2016 presidential election, democracy at Common Hour
By Vanessa Chen || Contributing Writer This week’s Common Hour featured Government Professor Stephen K. Medvic’s talk titled, “The 2016 Election and the State of American Democracy.” Medvic, who joined…