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Daily archive Nov 21, 2008

Fitted

By LaNika Knight Fashion is an important part of life: it’s the first thing you see when you meet someone, it’s used to make a statement and send a message, it makes you feel great about yourself, it’s a protector, and it’s a way to bring people together who may otherwise have nothing in common....

Staff Editorial: Fixing the Haverford College Apartments’ Management Issues

For the past 33 years, students who live in the Haverford College Apartments (HCA) have received a markedly different quality of facilities management than students who live up campus.

Goats Find Some Redemption in Regionals, Qualify for Nationals

By Anders Hulleberg The Haverford Men’s Cross Country team traveled to Waynesburg, PA last Saturday to compete in the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional Championship. Two weeks removed from failing to defend their Centennial Conference Championship for the first time in team history, the Goats needed a first or second place team finish to earn...

Haverford Squash Splits with Vassar

 By Kira Jones The Haverford Men’s and Women’s scores were mirror images of each other following last Saturday’s Squash matches versus Vassar. The men defeated Vassar 9-0 while the women fell to Vassar 0-9.   The Men’s team took an early lead and never looked back. Evan Stiegel ’09, Jeremy Sanders ’09, and David Bamat...

Haverford Women’s XC Fails to Make Nationals, Lipman Earns Bid

By Anders Hulleberg and Ryan Mulligan The Bees of Haverford College finished a disappointing sixth place at the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional, held in Waynesburg, PA on Saturday. At the very least, the Haverford Women’s Cross Country team needed a fourth place finish to qualify for the National Championship meet, which is scheduled for...

Facilities Management to Take Over HCA

By Anna Brockway In response to a report presented at the October Board of Managers meeting, Haverford College Facilities Management plans to officially take over management of the Haverford College Apartments (HCA) in May or June of 2009. The report, compiled by Students Council Co-Presidents Harrison Haas ’10 and Will Harrison ’10, addressed student concerns about life...

Multicultural Jurors Working Group Readies for Wednesday’s Open Forum

By Michael Novinson The multicultural jurors working group will present some concrete ideas for discussion at Wednesday’s student forum. The meeting will take place from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Gest 101.    The working group plans to put forward a single proposal with different components, Co-Chair Sam Rabinowitz ’09 said. The group has considered...

Bryn Mawr Discusses Changes to Honor Board Abstracts

By Sarah Westbrook The Bryn Mawr Honor Board held their first open discussion of the year last Wednesday, November 12, to consider the role of Honor Board abstracts in the Bryn Mawr community. The discussion also focused on various changes in procedure and form which might make abstracts more effective. Honor Board Head Katie Kellom...

“Who are you?” Posters Intended to Stir Thought

By Andrew Thompson Is anger a suppressed or silenced emotion on Haverford’s campus? That is the question Jules Burnstein ’09 is attempting to answer with the “Who are you?” posters she placed in various high-profile locations on campus, including in the first floor of the Campus Center, Lunt basement, some bathrooms in Stokes, and near...

Hamlet Overtakes Marshall Auditorium

By Walker Anderson It’s not easy to make Hamlet feel fresh. Half the lines in the play are so well-known that it seems the characters speak only in clichés, and usually over half of the audience not only knows what’s going to happen, but has seen productions or films of the play before. The most...

The Buzz: Musical Study Guide

By David Wicks Recently, I was searching the GO! boards for an interesting article topic.  There was some talk of the FUCS show, but I was looking for discussion.  A thread that caught my attention however, was the thread regarding music to work to.  I guess this is a pretty good question to examine, since...

Show Me the Franklins

By Beth Patel In her play Show Me the Franklins, Dr. Amanda Kemp melded her passions for history and theater into a rich dramatization of the historical record of Benjamin Franklin’s interactions with the North American slave trade, co-directed by Kemp and Dave Ebersole.