Disabilities Week at HC
By Jesse Lee As part of Haverford’s ongoing campaign to nurture a community of acceptance and tolerance, the Disabilities Awareness Steering Committee hosted Disabilities Awareness Week, a series of events held from November 4-7 to help students gain an understanding of issues pertaining to disabilities.
SPN Registers Half of Haverford
By Niloufer SiddiquiFeatures Editor ? With possibly the most important election in America’s history less than a week away, Haverford students have become caught up in the fervor that has enveloped the country and most of the world.
Response to Edwards Positive but Critical
By Jeanne Dreskin When Haverford students checked their email on Saturday, October 16, few expected to find an invitation to hear John Edwards speak the following Monday afternoon. When that day came, the line that snaked from the Alumni Ficldhouse’s doors, across Founders Green and almost reaching the Dining Center, was clear evidence of the...
Haverford Security Beefs Up For Edwards Visit
By Steve Hagenbuch The news that Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards would be coming to Havcrford College for a town hall meeting was a surprise to many students, but it was even more surprising to Tom King, director of Safety and Security, when he learned that he had just over three days to plan...
Student Political Groups Prepare for November 2
By Laura GrannisNews Editor Republicans/ Students for Bush These two groups are working to reelect the entire Republican ticket. They have been calling voters on behalf of Representative Jim Gerlach, Senator Arlen Specter, and President Bush. In addition to making phone calls, the Republicans have distributed campaign literature. On election day, they will head into...
Haverford Non-Voters: Why Not Cast A Ballot?
By Elizabeth Gray Out of 167 student respondents to a Bi-Co News GO! Boards poll, ninety-two percent plan to vote in the presidential election, whether casting a ballot here in Pennsylvania or sending an absentee ballot to their home state. The other eight percent compose a small, often overlooked part of the Haverford community. For...
The Obligatory Awkward Picture
By Just to show that we at the Last Word aren’t so liberal that we’d lay down ‘mad Taliban beats’ at a slammin’ Al-Qaeda hip-hop house-party, here’s a slight poke at Vice-Presidential Candidate John Edwards, seen here in Haverford’s very own Alumni Field House. Hey Johnny, why don’t you, uh, try not to hold your...
Help Haverford’s Endowment
By Nicholas Mirra Everyone knows that it takes effort from all branches of a college, from students and alumni to faculty and administrators, to make the institution successful, respected, and fiscally sound. It is time we students did our part to ensure the future fiscal solvency of Haverford College. Successful track meets, Consensus-a-Thons, and online...
Guest Editorial
By Matt Mesick Even the most cursory examination of Senator Kerry’s voting record reveals that we should load him up with butter and Aunt Jemima’s and call him a waffle. To understand the waffling ways of John Kerry, we must admit that they are rooted in the waffling ways of the Democratic Party.
Top Ten Thesis Topics
By Dan O’Keefe All of academia is astir with talk of this year’s upcoming theses! All a-buzz, if you will. Like a hive—yes, a hive full of bees. Flying to and fro, gathering, collecting—and always to the drone of that eternal humming. Buzzing, buzzing, always buzzing— Anyway, uh—here it is.
Out of Left Field
By Jeff Ratliff The universal sign for choking is a hand clutched to the throat, with thumb and fingers extended. Maybe if the Yankees knew that, someone could have come to their aid last week. Instead, the New York Yankees became the first team ever to give up a 3-0 series lead in a best...
Keeping Score
By Sasha Toten For the first time since the year of my birth (1986), the Red Sox are going to the World Series. There was a group of about twenty-five Sox fans in the Campus Center on Thursday night hoping for the near impossible – that they, the underdogs, would win their fourth straight game...