A new simplicity has hit the runways. When will it hit Hollywood and the streets?

By Darren White 

Columnist

Looking at the recent fall collections coming out of New York and London, all featuring a new modernism, I had a flashback to the red carpet looks from the Grammys – Lady Gaga in a silver orbit dress, Beyonce’s sequin-and-Swarovski encrusted Armani mini-dress, Rihanna’s chopped tulle party dress for the pre-party – and I thought to myself: enough is enough. Every pop starlet is trying her best to out-fashion her peers, looking to avant-garde designers like Gareth Pugh and Viktor & Rolf to create red-carpet gowns that will make them stand out from the crowd. And the starlets do stand out, but not because they look all that glamorous and modern. They just look odd. Read the rest of this entry »

By Will Stone
Sports Editor

It’s not easy being Number One, and Haverford Squash’s number one spot, Andrew McComas ’13 will be the first to agree. Last Saturday, McComas and his teammates on the Men’s Squash team closed their season with an overall record of 4-11. Nonetheless, the Squirrels’ performance at the National Championships bumped them up one notch to 38th in the nation.

Coming off a win and two losses in last weekend’s tournament, McComas has emerged from his rookie year a seasoned competitor and, more importantly, an enthusiastic Ford “Squasher.” Read the rest of this entry »

By Maddy Court
Production Manager

The secret to success is not to do something common uncommonly well, but to enable people to do something common on a mass scale.

That’s how I see Twitter—a mass network where people and the groups they identify with can voice essentially anything to anyone. Twitter doesn’t have to be categorized as irredeemably pointless or a noble experiment in free speech because if you’re doing it right, it falls somewhere in the middle. Read the rest of this entry »

By Sharon Li

I walked into a semi-crowded basement around 11:30 p.m., realized I’d missed the first band, Square Wave (oops), slapped ten high-fives in a row with a friend, spilled beer on myself and settled into a comfortable-looking seat. All week, I’d been hearing from random friends, particularly a Jack Wright Nelson, about how this show was going to be super duper fun. Jack ended up alone in a bathroom in Philly, but the show did turn out to be pretty good.

People were bustling about merrily and hanging out, while the musicians lugged around their equipment in preparation for the main act, Class Actress. The band that was originally going to play, Cold Cave, broke up this week, continuing a streak of bad luck (remember when the sky took a dump on us, made us really cold, and snowed in the Blue Album Group?). Nonetheless, Class Actress was a decent main act and people looked like they were having fun, dancing and prancing about.

Based on Square Wave’s performance the last time they came, I would guess it was a similar deal — energy building up in a gradually forming crowd, some of them dancing to wavering electro synths that boinged and spazzled over a steady thudding beat, others watching the He-man cartoons projected in the background, others milling around with their various friends. I asked a few friends who said it was good and fun.

Square Wave is an 8-bit/electronic music duo consisting of Evan Magoni and Charles Affel from Wyndmoor, Penn. According to their MySpace page, "we’re from the futuurreeee." As their set drew to an end, I dragged my lazy self upcampus, and by the time I got there, the washing machines were stuffed with coats, people seemed to be chatting, having a good time and pumping more frothy refills out of the keg for jolly good times.

I stared and fumbled around with my cup out of which I’d taken a sip but no more when a beat prodded its way into the basement, followed by light buttery female vocals. Class Actress was on. Class Actress began with solo singer Elizabeth Harper, then linking up with producers Scott Rosenthal and Mark Richardson shifting from a previously guitar-based sound toward one that’s more electronic synth-pop, imbued with 80’s synths and beats, dancy basslines, and pop star melodies (a la Madonna) underscored by a moodier, darker edge (like other influence Depeche Mode): “stalker pop,” as Harper calls it.

Students danced as the band dove through a series of songs of heavy driving beats and synths, zaps and glimmers, keyboard strumming counterbalanced with Harper’s feathery vocals breathing out lyrics about heartbreak and such. They seemed to be having fun, but I was far away from the front of the stage, sitting next to the windows in the back with a couple of friends who were enjoying the music. Around the stage, blues and greens and other colors warped into each other, pulsing with the beat. It wasn’t too crowded but a good enough number for a reasonable dance par-dy.

The music kind of reminded me of being out in the city, having lost all your friends and a shoe and wallet too, yet nonetheless still going at it in the slinky little basement party with glamorous people, trashy people, good music and other worries still floating around in your mind. The music was good. I liked it. As the set drew to an end, the lights transitioned back to yellow and Dylan Neves-Cox began spinning some tunes for the rest of however much longer Lunt lasted. There weren’t that many people, but enough for a good gathering. Not bad at all.

By Lizzie Douglas
Staff Writer

After Plenary’s failure to maintain quorum Feb. 21, Andrew Thompson ’12 and Cody Oakley ’10 started what Thompson described as a campaign not to ratify the Honor Code.

The two posted a Go! thread explaining their reasoning and created a Facebook event called, “HoNOr Code. If it’s broke, FIX IT.” The event description said, “Haverfordians no longer care enough about each other to spend 4 hours together. If Haverfordians don’t care, The Honor Code…is broken. We need to fix it.” Read the rest of this entry »