Head to Head — Print Photographs
By Elizabeth Svokos Two weeks ago my computer crashed. I lost all my photographs. My trip to China last summer, my mom’s 50th birthday party, a really embarrassing picture of Juliana Reyes from freshman year: gone, gone, gone. Digital photographs, you are the worst. Didn’t you grow up looking at old pictures of...
Lifelong Haverfordian Kannerstein Dies at 67
By Michael Novinson Greg Kannerstein ’63 died Tuesday of complications from mesothelioma, a form of cancer almost always caused by exposure to asbestos. He was 67. Kannerstein spent 37 of his 41 years at Haverford as a dean, 23 years as Athletic Director and 15 years as head baseball coach. He came to Haverford...
Rhythm n Motion Exhibits Tri-Co Dance Talent
By Alex Obando The moment the lights in Swarthmore’s LPAC Theater started to dim this past Saturday night, the audience erupted into excited screams and hollers. Rhythm n Motion (RnM), a tri-college dance group, was about to take the stage. Their friends’ and fans’ supportive screams barely let up all night. Even a sore throat...
Tales from the Other Side of the Surgical Mask
By Rosie Dillon It started with a sore throat, cough, and fatigue. With whisperings of swine flu and the H1N1 virus itself hanging in the crisp November air at Haverford, I sat terrified in my room, enlisting passersby to feel my forehead. After a few days of lying low and periodically stopping by Health Services...
Bryn Mawr Basketball Team Defeats Penn State
By Sam Ahmed Bryn Mawr’s Deb Charamella earned her first victory as a head coach as Bryn Mawr tamed the Penn State-Abington Nittany Lions, 64-35, in the consolation game of the 2009 BMC Tip-Off Tournament. The Owls got on the board first when Lindsey Darvin netted three of her 31 points of the day. Bryn...
The Evolution of Evolution
By Heather Taddonio It’s the age-old story of a true adventurer: a man enraptured by the world around him who disobeyed his father’s wishes when he accepted an offer to sail around the world pursuing his hobby in the name of science. His name was Charles Darwin. Darwin is one of the most famed...
Physics For Dummies, From The Smartest There Is
By Atticus Brigham William Phillips dazzled approximately one hundred and twenty people, including President Dr. Stephen G. Emerson ’74, with a talk on November 16 covering time and temperature. He won the Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work in laser cooling, a technique to slow the movement of gaseous atoms in order to better...
Waiting in the “Swine Line”
By Elizabeth Held “They should give us food when we’re in line,” joked Elizabeth Bingham ’10 while waiting in line for her H1N1 vaccine. Bingham was one of approximately 260 Bryn Mawr students to receive the vaccine at last Monday’s three-hour clinic. Most students spent about an hour in the “swine line,” which began outside...
Global Gender Report Reveals Bryn Mawr’s Biases
by Wajeeha Mohsin Out of 134 countries, Iceland claimed the top spot on the Global Gender Report 2009, while Yemen came out at the bottom. In an online survey asking Bryn Mawr students where they expected countries to rank regarding gender inequity, about a third of the nearly 100 Mawrtyrs who responded said that they...
Yalah! Raq the Stage!
By Julie O’Neil This past Saturday night I had the pleasure of watching the annual fall student dance concert, entitled "1120 Dance Ave." The show is in its seventeenth year and this one was organized by seniors Emily Altiere BMC ’10 and Caitlin Iles BMC ’10. The show ran for just the right amount of...
BMC Language Requirement to Change
By Rebecca Militello The Bryn Mawr faculty is preparing to vote on a proposal to modify the foreign language requirement. If approved, it would go into effect with the freshmen class entering next year. The new requirement means that every student will be required to take two semesters of foreign language based courses. Those who...
Victory for Bryn Mawr Swim Team
By Sam Ahmed It was a triumphant day for the Owls as freshman Meredith Davis became the first swimmer in five years to set a school record for the swim team. Her time of 1:01.02 not only broke the six-year record of 1:01.28 that Kelly Radimer set back in 2004 but led the first-year swimmer...