Athlete of the Week (11/15/11) (BMC)
Sophomore swimmer Judy Yueng earned two podium finishes at the meet at Gettysburg this past Saturday. She swam a second-place finish in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:21.14 and third-place finish in the 50 freestyle with a time of 26.55. In the 400 yard medley relay, freshmen Phoebe Jordan and Kristina Xiang and...
Sports Highlights (11/15/11) (BMC)
The basketball team has their first game of the season at home against Randolph at 2 pm. After going winless last season, the team looks to climb up the Conference standings this year. Freshman runner Claudia Keep, who finished 12th at the NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship and will attending Nationals next week, was...
Athlete of the Week (11/15/11)
Senior Eric Arnold led the men’s cross country team to a first-place finish at the 2011 NCAA Division III Mid-Atlantic Regional Championship. Arnold finished the eight-kilometer race in second place with a time of 25 minutes and 25 seconds, only a half-step behind winner Allegheny College’s Bobby Over. The four other scoring runners also placed...
Sports Highlights (11/15/11)
After making it to Centennial Conference semifinals last year, the men’s basketball team enters this season with high hopes. Their first home game of the season is the 20th annual Equinox Classic against Merchant Marine at 3 pm on Saturday. The women’s team opens their season with a home game today against Immaculata at 6...
Cyrano de Bergerac Review
By Taylor Stone Arts Editor When one is looking for a good dose of sword fighting, tragic love, and witty dialogue surrounding the “rather large” size of a character’s nose, look no further than the Shakespeare Performance Troupe’s energetic productions. True to this spirit, audiences were treated to a fantastic version of “Cyrano de...
Mylo Xyloto Review
By Ani Chen Staff Writer On October 24th, Coldplay released its fifth album, Mylo Xyloto. For dedicated fans, Mylo Xyloto represents a break from the band’s earlier work. Although a bit edgier, a bit pop-ier (is that even a word?), Mylo Xyloto delivers on Coldplay’s signature break-your-heart aesthetic (think ‘Yellow’ and ‘Don’t Panic’), while...
Tri-Co Professors Show Support for Occupy Philly
By Allison Rodgers Staff Writer The Occupy Wall Street Movement, which began in Zuccotti Park, New York City over the summer to protest corporate greed and a loss of social mobility in the United States, has grown into a worldwide demonstration representing an array of causes. Academic interest in the protest has been present from...
The Rise of Haver-apathy
By Matt Fernandez Arts Editor Let’s face it: the art of journalism is rapidly changing. With people more frequently receiving their news and information online, other journalistic forms like print and radio are seemingly becoming irrelevant for today’s generation. Yet at a small liberal arts school like Haverford, where nearly everyone knows each other,...
Like Crazy: Honeymoon? What Honeymoon?
By Alec Calder Johnsson Staff Writer The greatest problem with most romance films nowadays is that the conflict in them usually stems from some outside liaison. Adultery—or cheating, if you will—is okay as a subject, but as a means of creating tension, it is growing into a cliché. I do not deny that it...
Bryn Mawr Professor Elected to School Board
By Rebecca Shaw Staff Writer Marissa Golden attended her first school board meeting in Long Island when she was 10 years old. “My mother was very involved in a local issue in Long Island, and ever since then I thought that issues involving public school were very important,” said Golden. “My mother was committed...
Search for Haverford’s President Under Way
By Thy Vo Staff Writer Students gathered for a focus group with representatives from the Presidential Search Committee and the search firm Storbeck/Pimentel in the DC Sunken Lounge last Thursday, the first part of the process to select Haverford’s 14th president by July of next year. Consultant Shelly Storbeck, committee co-chairs Garry Jenkins ’92...