by Rachel Baron Contributing writer This Spring Semester, the Tri-Co is offering “Restorative Justice: Designing Justice, Designing Spaces Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program” once a week from 11:30-5p.m. on Wednesdays. The course is part of the Inside-Out Program, an educational model that puts college students and incarcerated students together for a semester-long class. The course will be...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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,...
by David Block Contributing writer The past four years under the leadership of President Obama have been with consistent disappointment and empty rhetoric. President Obama inherited a difficult situation; a nation entrenched in two seemingly endless wars abroad and reeling from the worst financial crisis since the great depression. Undoubtedly, much of the economic stagnation...
byAllie Levitan Managing Editor Lillie Catlin has been a political force on Bryn Mawr’s campus since spearheading Bryn Mawr’s Students for Barack Obama last semester. Along with her amazing team of student campaign workers, Lillie has worked tirelessly to raise the political and voting awareness of students on campus and individuals in the Bryn Mawr...
