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Archive for January, 2009Super Bowl XLIII PreviewBy Kira Jones Sports fans everywhere are getting excited for the Super Bowl XLIII match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. The game to be played at Tampa Bay on February first provides the quintessential competition between fan favorite – the Steelers and underdog – the Cardinals.
Read the rest of this entry » End of an Era for Haverford Men’s SoccerBy Ryan Mulligan The Haverford College Athletic Department announced last Tuesday that Haverford’s Head Men’s Soccer Coach of 26 years, Joe Amorim, will be retiring at the end of June. “He decided that he was going to retire from soccer and was going to look into some other opportunities,” said Athletic Director Wendy Smith.
Read the rest of this entry » An Interview with Predator the OwlBy Lily Hann There is one particular face which stands out in the crowd at basketball games; it is that of Predator the Owl. Predator cheers at points, flaps wings at questionable calls, and dances during half-time. Though she communicates only through gestures, not words, it would be hard to miss Bryn Mawr’s mascot.
Read the rest of this entry » Coop Athlete of the Week
Doug Edelman ’10, Men’s Basketball
Read the rest of this entry » Haverford Women’s Basketball Falls to GettysburgBy Nicole Lantz The Haverford Women’s basketball squad fell to conference rival Gettysburg last Saturday in an afternoon showdown. In a spread of 24 points, the final score was 38-62 in favor of the Bullets. Though the young Fords showed promise on every part of the court, they could not battle back from the lead taken by their opponent in the first half of the game. A surge midway through the second half showed the ability of the Fords to hang with Gettysburg, but it was not enough to overcome the score caused by a sloppy, slow start.
Read the rest of this entry » Haverford Men’s Basketball Topples Conference’s BestBy Ryan Mulligan The Haverford Men’s Basketball team knew it was good enough to compete with the best in a competitive Centennial Conference. They showed it when they beat McDaniel. All season, these guys have known. Last Saturday afternoon, they showed us again.
Read the rest of this entry » Super Bowl XLIII Will Cap Storied SeasonBy Ryan Mulligan Any given Sunday, the talking heads of the world of professional football like to say, any team in the NFL can beat any other team in the NFL. It’s a nice sounding way to say “We don’t really know anything.” And it’s true. The experts are never particularly certain what’s going to happen. But at the beginning of this season, a few things seemed clear.
Read the rest of this entry » George Washington’s Squash Militia Leads the Revolution Against HaverfordBy Haig Minassian It was 18 degrees Fahrenheit with the wind chill factor on Saturday, but at 1:00 p.m. EST, the Gardner Integrated Athletics Center squash courts really heated up. Our very own Haverford Men’s and Women’s Squash teams took on arguably one of the best squash programs in the country in George Washington University in a David-and-Goliath match-up.
Read the rest of this entry » Owls Fight Through HeartbreakersBy Alex Byers Last week was a busy one for the Bryn Mawr Basketball team: they took on three teams at home in six days. On Saturday, Jan. 16 the Owls hosted the Cedar Crest Falcons in a competitive match-up. Although the Falcons stepped up and scored first, earning a 6-2 lead within eight minutes of the of the first half, Bryn Mawr battled back, scoring nine unanswered points and brought the score to 11-6.
Read the rest of this entry » bmc ath of the weekBefore break, basketball player Jess Allen ‘09 scored her 1000th point. The co-captain returned ready to play at the same high level–in her first three games of the new semester Allen completed two double doubles. Athlete of the WeekBadminton senior Erica Lippoldt held her own against some of Swarthmore’s most competitive players. The Owls lost 4-5 but Lippoldt helped keep the score close. Above and Beyond the Call of Jury DutyBy Maddie Hoagland-Hanson Almost as soon as I got home for winter break, my mother spoke to me in a serious tone: “I don’t want you to be upset,” she said quietly, with the air of someone imparting some deeply sensitive information—the death of a beloved pet or relative perhaps—“but we got a jury summons for you about a week ago. You need to sign it and return it.”
Read the rest of this entry » The Downturn Sinks Dining ServicesBy Kelsey McMillen In these harsh economic times, it would be silly to think that our own college would not be affected. Necessary cuts have been made to many aspects of our lives here at school, and many of the luxuries that we have enjoyed may be temporarily unavailable. For the most part, I have accepted that relinquishing these luxuries is a necessary duty of mine, but I cannot quietly accept what has happened to our dining halls. It is frustrating to see what has happened to our dining halls and know that money that could be going to our food is instead going to potentially more frivolous expenditures around campus.
Read the rest of this entry » Bryn Mawr: The Inconvenient Label-MakerBy Liz Hood Judgment can be a cruel tool used to simplify quite complicated matters. A lack of understanding often leads one to nitpick at the few details discernible to the naked eye; even more often, it allows us to remain ignorant to the truths that lie below the surface. We label people—everyone does it. And although optimists would like to believe this is merely a method of simplifying the complex subject matter of an individual’s personality, sadly, this is not always the case. Even in our bi-college bubble, a community of relatively tolerant people, one can be sure to hear about the “bitches,” the “man-whores,” the “bookworms,” the “anime crowd,” or the “theater nerds,” to name a few.
Read the rest of this entry » Long Term Capital Management: ‘Impossible’ Is Nothing
By James Merriam In 1998, something crazy happened: the impossible. It wasn’t really “impossible,” strictly speaking, but if the official chance were hundreds of millions to one, most people would likely make the leap and call it impossible.
This impossible event occurred to a bunch of chaps who, in 1997, won the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics and became fabulously wealthy through a method that they had cooked up to produce profit without the inconvenience of “risk,” as experienced by mere mortals.
Read the rest of this entry » The Vegetarian: What You May Not (But Probably Should) KnowBy Shannon Murphy Is vegetarianism a recent concept? Absolutely not. In fact, vegetarianism can be traced back to the 19th century. In 1837, the American Physiological Society was formed specifically to promote a vegetarian diet. Similarly, in 1908, the first International Vegetarian Union World Vegetarian Congress met in Dresden, Germany. The IVU still holds global congressional meetings to discuss the vegetarian lifestyle; the most recent was in 2002 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Read the rest of this entry » Can We Keep Our Promise to the Sciences?By Faith Pilacik America does poorly on international math and science tests. America falls behind in technological advances. Blah, blah, blah…C’mon, we’ve heard all this before and nothing has changed. With these results, expectations lower, and we drop even further in the rankings. Do you want to know where the money for my National Science Foundation research grant came from during the Bush Administration? The Department of Defense. Umm…what?
Read the rest of this entry » Sour Economy Forces Bryn Mawr Dining Services CutbacksBy Katherine Bakke Bryn Mawr students received an email from Director of Dining Services Bernie Chung-Templeton this Wednesday, outlining reductions that will be made to Bryn Mawr’s dining program. The primary reason for the cutbacks? The sour economy.
Read the rest of this entry » The Pilgrimage to DC: Haverford Students at the InaugurationBy Jonathan Yu From the moment that Barack Obama was declared President-elect, Alexa Kutler HC ‘11 knew she had a mission—to travel to Washington DC for the 56th Presidential Inauguration.
Read the rest of this entry » HCA Improvements Planned after Winter Break InspectionsBy Larry Miller As a part of the long-term effort to improve the standard of living in the Haverford College Apartments, the residences underwent a series of inspections and cleanings between December 21 and January 11.
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