Athlete of the Week (11/1/11)
Senior Emily Lipman led the women’s cross country team to a second place finish the Centennial Conference Championship. Lipman, who ran the six-kilometer course in 23 minutes, 44.3 seconds, just one second shy of the individual title. This performance helped to give Haverford a score of 52, nine fewer than champion Johns Hopkins. The Bees...
Athlete of the Week (11/1/11) (BMC)
Field hockey freshman Maddy Beckmann scored all of the Owls’ goals in their 4-3 overtime win over Cedar Crest College at home. This performance doubled the previous record of two goals for a single Bryn Mawr player. The game was also the first time in five years that the Owls scored four goals.
“The New American Short Story” Panel Prompts Enjoyable Discussion
By Taylor Stone Arts Editor In the past, the BMC Creative Writing Reading Series has sponsored a myriad of fantastic readings by domestically and internationally renowned writers and this academic year is clearly no exception. Hosting such writers as Jennifer Egan and Nathan Englander in previous weeks, the CWRS kept the momentum going with...
Bryn Mawr Art Events
Art Events Wednesday, Nov. 2 Creative Writing Program Reading Series: Natasha Trethewey Goodheart Music Room 7:30 PM Colloquium in Visual Culture: “Vitalism’s Afterburn: The Sense of Ana Mendieta” Thomas 224 12-2:00 PM Saturday, Nov. 5 Bryn Mawr Family Weekend Concert Thomas Great Hall 8:30 PM Monday, Nov. 7 Lecture with Judith Butler McPherson Auditorium, Goodhart...
Simple Pleasures, Intriguing Art
By Whitney Mueller Staff Writer Perhaps the most striking aspect of the latest exhibition at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is its everydayness. The “small and shapely pleasures” promised by “Through the Plain Camera” are, according to co-curator Rebecca Robertson, small in their depiction of “everyday, not grand, moments” and shapely in that they are “pleasureable...
Record-setting 38 Teams Attend Haverween
By Jacob Lowy Staff Writer Two weekends ago, the men and women’s Ultimate Frisbee Teams (Big Donkey Ultimate, and the Sneetches, respectively) hosted their annual fall Ultimate tournament, Haverween. The weekend was the result of many hours of careful planning and coordinating by the captains of both teams (Matt Lowenthal ’12 and Aubrey Clark-Brown...
Night Owls’ Halloween Concert featuring Drexel a Cappella Compels Joy, Outdated ‘50s Expressions
By Michaela Olson Staff Writer Has anyone ever told you to ‘wear socks, ‘cause they’re gonna get knocked off’? This is the kind of experience they’re talking about. The Bryn Mawr Night Owls Halloween Concert, featuring Drexel’s 8 to the Bar, was truly a sock-knocking evening. The evening began, as expected, on Bryn Mawr time,...
Contemplating Chomsky: Why We Would Be Better Off Without Professor Noam
By Raymond Scott Opinions Editor Few names elicit as much reverence on college campuses as the name “Chomsky.” Students have deified Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT as a guru of progressive thought. Yet, his reaction to the explosive events on September 11 signaled that the man had certainly lost his grip, and his subsequent writings have...