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Daily archive Jan 13, 2010

“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,...