Joe Spadaro Named as New CIO
By Hannah Jaenicke After a year-long search, Joe Spadaro has been named as Haverford’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). President Dr. Stephen G. Emerson ’74 said that Spadaro was the administration’s first choice for the role, although all of the candidates were strong contenders. Spadaro currently holds a similar position at St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY,...
Professor Profile: Zolani Ngwane
By Elizabeth Svokos Professor Zolani Ngwane started working as an assistant professor at Haverford in 2001. His professional future panned out as expected: he became a full-time professor in the Anthropology department, teaching classes ranging from modernism to religion to the theories behind anthropology. “I like all facets of anthropology,” he said. But before he settled down...
Reflections on Greg Kannerstein
My first instinct is to smile remembering Greg’s quick wit and priceless sense of humor. Greg was a great teacher. He showed us all the truly important things in life by the way he led his life; what it means to be honest, modest, gentle, fair, and generous.
How to Teach Math? Just Dance
By Sophia Guida On a crisp Friday afternoon, on a tiny stage in a school auditorium, a group of five Bi-Co students and their professor warmed up to dance away the afternoon, amid broken chairs and fluorescent lights. A frazzled teacher stood before the audience, the second and sixth graders of Morrison School in Olney,...
BMC Freshman Will Skate to National Ice Dancing Championships
By Amanda Kennedy Winter break has a lot in store for Bryn Mawr freshman Katie Zeigler. With ice dancing partner Baxter Burbanks, Zeigler will lace up her skates and participate in the 2010 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Spokane, Wash from Jan. 14-24. The competition will feature Zeigler and Burbanks in the Junior Ice Dance...
Pulso Latino Dances the Night Away
By Lauren Gill The tri-co’s only Latin Dance Troupe, Pulso Latino, presented its fall showcase on Friday night in Marshall Auditorium. The troupe wowed the audience, performing passionate, elegant numbers as well as upbeat, fun ones. The show started off on a high note with “Cumbia,” a by-product of the traditional Colombian Cumbia. This was...
“The Broke It, Let Them Fix It” Opens in Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery
by Milap Dixit Students make videos for open-source exhibition project. Haverford artists Dylan Ravenfox ’09, Sam Kaplan ’10 & Goda Trakumaite ’10, Robin Riskin 12, and Jane Holloway ’11 and Bryn Mawr artist Samantha Salazar ’11 displayed short video works for the installation apparatuses that make up Finley + Muse’s Imaginative Feats Literally Presented: Three...
Getting to Know You: A Look at Two TLI Partnerships
by Juliana Reyes Features Editor Don Carroll and Emily Levine pore over a table in the Lusty Cup. Usually a place for students to meet with French tutors or discuss problem sets, the spot has become Carroll’s writing studio for the next two hours. Carroll sifts through a green folder as Levine examines the sea...
Owls Basketball Traumitized by Terror
By Sam Ahmed The Bryn Mawr basketball team closed out the 2009 portion of its schedule Saturday afternoon, suffering a 39-72 loss to McDaniel in Centennial Conference action. After seven lead changes over first eleven minutes of action, McDaniel (3-4/3-2 CC) took the lead for good as Ashley Lyles made a baseline jumper with...
Bi-Co Flutes Flaunt Holiday Cheer
By Julie O’Neil I really had no idea what to expect when I headed out of the cold winter evening and into the Goodhart Theater Music Room on Friday evening around dusk. I was worried. What did I know about the flute or what made the recital a good one? Luckily, I was very pleasantly...
Fords Protest Swiss Minaret Ban
By Robin Riskin A wooden minaret capped in a green cloth stood outside of Founders starting at 8 a.m. Friday. Edin Fako ’11 erected it to protest Switzerland’s recent ban on the construction of minarets—tower-like structures featured in Islamic architecture from which the call to prayer is made. Fako broadcast the call to prayer—or adhaan—from...
SGA Responds to Honor Council Hearing at Wellesley
By Elizabeth Held The Tuesday before Thanksgiving break, members of the SGA Executive Board received an e-mail from Katie Chanpong, the President of Wellesley College Government, asking for a letter of support in light of recent events on their campus. What events lead to this unusual call for support? On Saturday, November 21, Jeremy Pham,...