Sports Highlights (3/29/11)
This week, the baseball team has two important games against rival Swarthmore. The first game is away today, and the second is on Friday at home. After being swept in a double-header against No. 12 Johns Hopkins, these conference games have high importance in the team’s playoff chances. They also have a home game on...
April Fools: Businessmen Interested in Buying Abandoned Buildings off Ardmore Ave., Discover They’re HCA
This past week, the owners of the local Store-It personal storage facility franchise, expressed interest to the Ardmore Zoning Board in purchasing the two rows of vacant buildings at the corner of Ardmore Ave. and County Line Rd. However, after searching through aged blueprints and old city records, the town informed them that the apartments...
Weekly ArtDate
Explore Philly With Your Ears “So you’ve been at Haverford how many years? And you still haven’t seen the Liberty Bell/Independence Hall/The First Bank of the U.S./[insert some other famous Philly historical site here]?! “ Upgrade your knowledge of Philadelphia’s history by downloading the Philly MP3 Audio Tour. The award-winning recording incorporates music, sound effects...
Harvey Glickman Hosts Symposium on Islamism in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Cameron Scherer Features Editor Islam is a much-discussed and frequently misunderstood topic in the media these days. With the words “Islamism,” “radical extremism,” and “terrorism” used almost synonymously – particularly by some prominent figures in Washington – many consider there to be insufficient scholarly discussion on this politically sensitive topic. Last Friday, Emeritus Professor...
Changes Planned for the Tri-College Summer Institute in 2011-12
By Paige DeRosa Staff Writer Recently, Deans of the Tri-College Consortium announced changes planned for the Tri-College Summer Institute on Race, Class and Gender (Tri-Co) in the 2011-12 academic year. Since the last changes were implemented in 2005, the summer Tri-Co institute involved a cohort of first year students from Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr and Haverford...
Body Image Council Hosts Walk for Eating Disorder Awareness [NEWS BRIEF]
The Bryn Mawr Body Image Council hosted a National Eating Disorder Awareness (NEDA) Walk Sunday, March 27 through the town of Bryn Mawr. Beginning at Rock Arch, going up Lancaster Ave. and heading back through campus to Pem Arch, 75 people walked the 5k on a sunny yet chilly morning. Body Image Council President Liz Frontino BMC ’12 said the walk raised...
Media Brief
Are you having trouble comprehending the magnitude of the potential nuclear meltdown in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan? Can’t get around the rhetoric of “radiation levels,” “cooling water” and “containment vessels”? Well an animated video produced by a Japanese cartoonist hopes to explain the crisis in terms that even a four-year-old could understand. In the sub-titled YouTube...
2011 XXL Freshman Concert
By Lauren Gill Staff Writer Lupe, Cudi, B.o.B., Wiz Khalifa: What do they all have in common? Besides not being able to turn on the radio without hearing a song from one of them, they all were once on the cover of the respected hip-hop magazine, XXL, as part of the publication’s annual freshman class....
AcadeMIX’s M-1 of Dead Prez: A Treasure of Talent At Haverford
By Alex Jacobs Staff Writer Haverford’s newest professor, Mutulu Olugbala, is bringing a bit of spice into the classroom. Olugbala, better known by his stage name M-1, is best known as half of the “Everything is Political” hip-hop duo Dead Prez. During his stay this semester, Olugbala will be visiting campus as an Africana Studies...
April Fools: James Franco to Star in Sophia Coppola Film Shot on Haverford’s Campus
By Clara Douglass Staff Writer Starz.com and Entertainment Weekly have reported that James Franco will play a fictional Haverford College professor in a film version of “The Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice,” a 2010 romance novel by Abigail Reynolds BMC ’81. The movie, to be directed by Oscar-winning indie favorite Sophia Coppola, will...
Paintings Speak at the “In the Frame” Reading and Panel Discussion
By Laura Feibush Staff Writer Bryn Mawr College’s Creative Writing Reading Series “In the Frame” brought a panel of three poets and three critics to Bryn Mawr to discuss women’s ekphrastic poetry, or poetry about visual art. Poets Jorie Graham, Rachel Hadas and Susan Wheeler read selections from their poetry written in response to paintings....
Baseball Seniors Poised to lead HC Baseball to Championship
By Kenny Likes Staff Writer They recently beat the record for the most consecutive wins ever and have a win percentage that is unrivaled by any other Haverford sports team. They’ve made it to their conference tournament seven out of the last eight seasons. In the past five years, this team has made it to...