Media Brief- Mavis Staples
By Rachel Kobasa Staff Writer For the holidays, I bought an album for my parents that I thought they would enjoy. Keep in mind that their pleasure was my motivation for the purchase. After they opened the new album by Mavis Staples, “You Are Not Alone”, I borrowed the CD for a few minutes to...
Lou Outlaw Charges Haverford to Test its Diversity Limits
By Margaret Ernst Special Projects Editor For years he was known as Haverford’s “moral compass”. So it’s no surprise that former philosophy professor and Haverford legend Lucius Outlaw started his talk last Monday by presenting a moral paradox. Consideration number one: “During the events [on September 11th, 2001], more than 3000 people were killed,” Outlaw...
Head2Head: Welcome the New Zodiac System
By Mallimalika Gupta Managing Editor I think Parke Kunkle is onto something. Who’s Kunkle, you ask? He’s kind of like the Galileo of 2010. The one with the slightly controversial, whacky idea that makes people raise eyebrows, vehemently shake their heads and fill their twitter accounts with rants. His idea, like Galileo’s, also has to...
Artist Profile: Dan Wriggins
By Alex Jacobs Staff Writer Dan Wriggins, a Haverford Freshman, joins us for a discussion of music, Leonard Cohen and playground toys. He can be seen playing at the SQUAD’s next open-mic in February. Dan can be reached at dwriggin@haverford.edu for any questions or purchase inquiries for his newest album. 1. Your band, Low Flying...
Head2Head: Anti New Zodiac
By Hannah Zieve Managing Editor In the past, I had never put that much stock in Zodiac signs. They seemed a little wishy-washy – how could people put so much stock in something that was supposed to define their life, yet was written thousands of years ago? I knew people born the day before me...
New Blue Bus Schedule Faces Bumps in the Road, Smooths Out
By Amanda Kennedy News Editor The idea to give students in the Bi-College community the opportunity to take back-to-back classes between campuses got the wheels turning in the minds of two administrators to revise the Blue Bus schedule for this semester. Little did they know that the road to creating an agreeable Blue Bus schedule...
Ben Takemoto for Joe Sestak
By Cameron Scherer Features Editor While most of us streamed last year’s midterm election results from our computers, or maybe gathered in Ryan Gym to watch the numbers come in, one recent Haverford alum found himself in the middle of it all. From August to December of 2010, Ben Takemoto ’10 worked as former-Democratic-Congressman Joe...
Bryn Mawr Community Gathers in Memory of Professor Hiroshi Iwasaki
By Julie Mazziotta News Editor Friends, family, and former students filled the Hepburn Teaching Theater to celebrate Professor Hiroshi Iwasaki’s life Jan. 21, through stories, poems, and song. In the packed theater, five close friends of Iwasaki’s described his lasting impact on the community, and then invited members of the audience to recount their memories...
Weekly ArtDate
The Oldest Profession The 60’s French New Wave tradition of releasing multi-directed short films as one feature has been mostly archived as a pleasant idiosyncrasy of the time. “The Oldest Profession” is a cheerful example that traces the history of prostitution from prehistoric times and into the future. Featuring the work of six French, German...
Sports Highlights: HC 1/25
- The Philadelphia Area Sports Information Association (Philly-SIDA) named six Haverford athletes to its 2010 Philadelphia Inquirer Fall Academic All-Area Teams, including men's cross-country runners Anders Hulleberg ’11 and Joseph Carpenter ’11, field hockey players Alex Waleko ’11 and Mary Hobbs ’13, men's soccer midfielder Alejandro Rettig y Martinez ’12, and volleyball co-captain Kate Comey...
Coop Athlete of the Week 1/25
Tim Schoch ’12 earned Centennial Conference Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors this past Tuesday after a strong showing at NYU’s Gotham Cup. Schoch posted a time of 4:12.60 in the mile race, giving him a fifth-place finish.