A True Bi-Winning Sports Dramedy: Win Win
By Ani Chen Staff Writer I am a masochistic person. Every morning, I force myself to glimpse the headlines on NPR or the BBC and every morning, I am unsurprisingly pained by the images and words. The world seems to be falling apart: wars rage in the Middle East, revolutions come and go and orphans...
BiCo Arts Events 5/3/2011-5/13/2011
Friday, May 6, 2011 2011 Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition WCC Art Gallery 7:00 PM Lighted Fools Senior Show KINSC Sharpless Auditorium 8:00PM – 10:00PM Saturday, May 7, 2011 Lighted Fools Senior Show KINSC Sharpless Auditorium 8:00PM – 10:00PM Sunday, May 8, 2011 2011 Fine Arts Senior Thesis Exhibition WCC Art Gallery 12:00 PM New...
The Extreme Keys’ Spring Concert Hits All the Right Notes
By Michelle Chung Arts Editor The final day of classes of the school year did not end with a bang but a harmonious hum. Students on Bryn Mawr’s campus shrugged off the impending wave of final exams, papers and presentations in Goodhart Music Room for the Extreme Keys’ spring concert. Each row of chairs in...
Introducing the McBrides: Noa Eagles
By Julie Gorham Columnist If Noa Eagles is a spark of energy, her son, Logan, is a thunderbolt. We arranged to meet last Tuesday afternoon at the McBride Lounge in the basement of Radnor but it was a sunshiny day, and four-year-olds do not stay inside on sunshiny days. So we met at Denbigh. But,...
Peanuts: Source of Hope
By Margaret Ernst Special Projects Editor I won’t deny the wit of Calvin and Hobbes. You always get a punch line in the last panel, or if not a punch line, some childlike wonder that leaves you sighing. And that’s great. That’s entertainment. But if you’re looking for spiritual renewal, Peanuts is for you. There...
Head 2 Head: Calvin and Hobbes
By Cameron Scherer Features Editor I don’t really know why we ended up going with this topic. I don’t say that out of a disbelief that comic strip superiority is the only difference of opinion you and I could come up with at 2 am outside Lunt, but because to me there is no debate....
News Briefs 4/26
Bryn Mawr Will Celebrate May Day, Haverford Will Celebrate Haverfest This Weekend This weekend marks the celebration of two long-standing traditions at both colleges. Bryn Mawr will celebrate its May Day on Sunday, May 1. Celebrations will begin at 5:45 a.m. on Sunday morning with sophomores waking seniors with flower baskets and song. The rest...
Media Brief
By Rachel Davis Arts Editor FUCS has produced some pretty amazing concerts this year, from Telephoned to Broken Water to the most recent venue, DJ Rupture, which tore up Lunt Basement for a final event in a series of great shows at Haverford for the 2010-11 school year. On Earth Day, Friday the 22nd,...
Environmental Studies in the Bi-Co
By Cameron Scherer Features Editor Environmentalism on a college campus entails more than recycling and reducing the campus’s carbon footprint. For many students and faculty, “being green” is something that happens just as much in the classroom as it does outside of it. In Fall 2011, what is now the Environmental Studies concentration, housed at...
Sports Highlights (4/26)
Last week the Bryn Mawr tennis team traveled to Ursinus College on Thursday for another Centennial Conference match up. The Owls took a loss of 1 to 8, but not without a fight. The No. 3 doubles Elizabeth Olecki and Jenny Vogel were the lone winner during the afternoon matches for Bryn Mawr. Due to...
ArtDate
With a Focus on Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) Wartime in Paris Watch the film adaptation of a classic novel on war and youth. To explore PIFA’s theme—“Paris, 1911”—Bryn Mawr Film Institute is holding a screening of All Quiet on the Western Front. The 1930 film follows a German schoolboy who fights for...
Art Spotlight: Bi-Co Jazz Band
By Farida Esaa Staff Writer Despite the chill, summertime felt a little closer Thursday evening as bright notes poured out of Ellie Howell’s BMC ’13 trombone and filled Lunt Basement. The song is called “Blusette” by Toots Thielemans. I feel carefree as I tap my foot and lean back into my chair. It was the...