Remembrance of 9/11/2001
By Darcey Glasser Opinion Editor What happened ten years ago is no secret. Most of us were in elementary or middle school when the World Trade Center fell and the United States was attacked. On September 11th2001, thousands died, families suffered, racial tensions burst, and those not immediately affected heard stories of the chaos...
FIG Brings Go! Boards to Bryn Mawr
By Julie Mazziotta News Editor This semester, FIG, Haverford’s student computing group, brought their popular Go! Boards to Bryn Mawr, after the idea was met with enthusiasm at the college’s spring plenary. The Go! Boards, created at Haverford in 2002, have long been a popular website for Fords, displaying everything from the weather, to top...
President Emerson Resigns Post, Interim President Joanne V. Creighton Becomes First Female President
By Andrew Thompson and Thy Vo Web Editor and Staff Writer Citing a desire to return to teaching, Stephen G. Emerson, ‘74 resigned this summer as the 13th President of the College, just as he was due to start the fifth and last year of his first term. Emerson will spend this year on a research...
Talking Literature, Time and Hype with Award Winning Author Jennifer Egan
By Nina Zipkin Editor-in-Chief Bryn Mawr College’s Creative Writing Program Reading Series kicks off September 21st with a visit from Jennifer Egan, the 2011 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize for her captivating, moving and richly observed fourth novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. The book is about a...
How To Be A Lonely Atheist
By Joseph Ziff Staff Writer I am not a believer. Let me rephrase that, I am really, really, REALLY not a believer. I do not believe in Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Hinduism, or any other religion for that matter. For god’s sake (pun not intended), I’m not even “not religious, just spiritual.” In...
Celebrating Qaddafi’s Fall, With Reservations
By Raymond Scott Opinion Editor It was the colonel’s favorite prop: a giant golden fist clasping the mangled scraps of an American warplane. Constructed in 1986, the sculpture mockingly symbolized the United States’ botched campaign to uproot one Muammar Qaddafi from power on the orders of the Reagan administration. It would come to serve as...
Tina Fey’s Brave and Hilarious Memoir Does Bryn Mawr Women Proud
By Taylor Stone Arts Editor “Once in a generation a woman comes along who changes everything, Tina Fey is not that woman, but she met that woman once and acted weird around her”. This statement is included on the back cover of Tina Fey’s memoir Bossypants, above a series of other clever and humorous blurbs....
Head Injuries in the NHL
By Nicole Lantz Staff Writer Following last week’s plane crash in Russia that killed 36 members of Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, a team in the Kontinental Hockey Leagues (KHL), this summer can easily be labeled as one of the most emotionally draining offseasons in NHL history and certainly the saddest. What would usually be deemed the...