The Fashion Beat: Haute couture
by Morgan Turner Columnist When I say the words haute couture (silent “h”, but you knew that, right?), what comes to mind? If you’re picturing something expensive, precisely crafted, and completely impractical, you’re not alone. There are many answers but the term haute couture is applied perhaps too liberally. Fashion bloggers, style writers, and photographers...
This week in photos: I Need Feminism Because
by Sarah Wolberg Managing Editor The Haverford Women’s Center held its “Who Needs Feminism?” photo campaign during the first week of November to raise awareness about feminism, which is sometimes seen as a “dirty word” on the Haverford campus. Sumin Park, HC ’13, a senior staff member at the Women’s Center, organized the campaign, which asked...
Residents of Perry House speak out
by Sarah Jenness, Christine Calderon, Jomaira Salas Contributing writers In Spring 2012 it was announced that Perry House, a living and social space for members of Sisterhood, Mujeres, and BACaSo would close due to lack of maintenance. A 1970 list of demands by black students needing a space to celebrate and value their culture produced Perry House...
Why I volunteer
by: Amanda Beardall Contributing writer While the rest of the campus was sound asleep on Saturday mornings, during my freshman year I would wake up at 5 AM to catch the first train into the city where I would spend the day leading social justice workshops and doing related service projects with middle school...
“Making a difference” in college
by: Tim Ibbotson-Sindelar ’13 and Laura Hecht ‘13 Contributing Writers How many times at Haverford or Bryn Mawr have you discussed inequality, justice,poverty, homelessness, illiteracy, or hunger? Here in the Bi-Co, we are fortunate to be surrounded by students and members of the community that care deeply about injustices in the world. There are many that...
Campuses connect: SEADS project to change cross-campus registration, data communication
by Sarah Wolberg Managing Editor The Bi-College Consortium is getting connected, as a new project promises to make interaction and communication between Haverford an Bryn Mawr more seamless in the next few years. The Seamless Administrative Services (SEADS) project is the “next stage of Bi-Co collaboration,” according to Bryn Mawr College president Jane McAuliffe, who...
Hurricane Sandy brings a forecast for change
by Lee McClenon Columnist “Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality,” said New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. While I do not believe that any one storm can prove climate change to be true, it is evident that climate change is already here. Unlike...
Haverford Democrats get out the vote with student volunteers
by Sarah Wolberg Managing Editor As Election Day approaches, the Haverford College Democrats Club kicked into high gear, spending weekends at the Obama campaign’s Bryn Mawr office and recruiting volunteers to do the same, canvassing residents by going door-to-door and running phone banks–all geared at getting Obama supporters to come out and vote by Nov....
“Why I vote the way I vote”
by Emma Geering Contributing writer I was raised in a part of New Jersey that, despite the state’s tendency to go with the Democratic candidate during the Presidential election, is very conservative. Parents preach to their children, essentially brainwashing them with the jaded ideas of a conventional America. Ideas such as that they were blessed to...
The historical legacy of the Obama-Romney contest
by Raymond DeLuca Contributing columnist The highly respected statistician Nate Silver of the New York Times had the result of this presidential race pegged with an Obama victory of 50.6 percent, compared to Romney’s loss of 48.3 percent in June of 2012. Since then, the official start of the 2012 presidential campaign, there really have...
“Why I vote the way I vote”
by Emma Moore Contributing writer I am voting this election because it is the first presidential election in which I am eligible to vote and I want to prove my generation is not apathetic. I am voting because, as a woman, my voice is underrepresented in each iteration of American government. I am voting because...
“Why I vote the way I vote”
by Alex Cross Contributing writer Throughout the interminable slog of this election cycle we have been treated to the same parade of attack ads, mud slinging, name-calling, posturing, nugatory promises, and vague entreaties that we have nurtured as integral to our Republic’s health for the better part of two centuries. Some parts of this campaign season,...