by Katie Thorp Reading is usually most enjoyable when you are curled up under the bed covers or sprawled in the grass on a warm summer’s day with your favorite comforting book. You smile to yourself as you take a journey with familiar characters that have become your friends and enemies. Some of the...
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by Julia Berner-Tobin Ghyslain has a lot going for it as a restaurant in Richmond. It is not a chain restaurant. It is far better than Saga and there is an entire counter of delicate and colorful gourmet chocolates and desserts. For students looking for a meal that is a little more upscale, if...
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by Molly Owen Hi everyone! I’m Molly, a junior psychology and business major here at Earlham. This semester I’m going to be doing an advice column focusing on relationships. Not only romantic relationships and dating, but also relationships with friends, family, coworkers, classmates—you name it, I would love to hear from you about it!...
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by Mamus Ngeseyan Sometimes the rich diversity of the international students on campus may go unnoticed in our eternal struggle of trying to find a balance between the three S’s: sleeping, studying, and socializing (in no particular order). However, being in a place such as Earlham where each student carries with them such a...
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by Sean Hughes This summer the 2008 Beijing Olympics were widely vaunted as a symbolic confirmation of China’s new status as a global economic and political giant. While record-breaking athletes such as Phelps and Bolt colored one side of media coverage, the event was also ensnared in controversy pertaining to China’s media censorship, its...
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by Daniel Vidos The age of crisis politics is upon us. According to the studies conducted by the Committee on Comparative Politics of the Social Science Research Center at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Studies at Palo Alto, California,* a political system can encounter five different types of crises: The crisis...
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by Anna McCormally For almost twenty years, students at Earlham College have been privileged to have access to an incredibly valuable resource: a listening ear at any time of day or night. “Bathroom lists” posted around campus provide the names, phone numbers and email addresses of Sexual Assault Survivors’ Advocates who are there for...
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by Bennett Murray The coming of the new academic year has seen a rise in tuition at Earlham College. Having been priced at $30,774 last year, students are now being asked to pay $33,274 a year for an Earlham education, in addition to the costs of room and board. “Basically, the increase was driven...
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by Kristin Hoppe In previous years, some Earlham students had to make a mad dash to eat in time or had to skip meals altogether. All that is different with the new meal exchange. “One of the things we heard from students was ‘I can’t use all my meals.’ And initially we wanted to...
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by Bennett Murray Novelist Dinaw Mengestu gave the year’s first convocation on the subject of his novel, “The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears.” His book, which is a fictional account of an Ethiopian immigrant in 1970s Washington, D.C., was required reading for this year’s incoming freshman class, and won the New York Times Notable...
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