by Tracy Perkins-Schmittler A huge Latino fiesta and a herd of naked cowboys won first place awards in the Air Guitar competition Friday, Feb. 13. The atmosphere was electric as people filed into Goddard Auditorium to classic oldies music. The hostess for the evening, senior Samantha Bossman, explained the criteria for judging contestants: lip...
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Sophomore sprinter Starr Gary was honored as player of the week by the North Coast Atlantic Conference after her performance at the Anderson Invitational last Saturday. Gary won the 55-meter dash in 7.5 seconds and came in first in the 200-meter dash in 27 seconds. Her 800-meter relay team also won the event with...
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by Mark Yost The Earlham men’s tennis team started their season with back-to-back matches last weekend at the West Indy Racquet Club in Indianapolis. They opened up against non-conference opponent Franklin College, losing 8-1 on Saturday, and were shut out 9-0 by Rose-Hulman on Sunday.
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by Tyler Wertsch I, like most Earlham students, pick up a copy of the Word every week to see what has been happening both in the community and in the minds of the students on campus. Normally, I am satisfied, if not pleased by the amount of coverage given to the campus at large,...
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by Benji Davidow, with contributions by Jeana Clampitt, Eirinn Cooper, Jenny Lawson and Suzanne Hodgkins Three meals a day, seven days a week, sixteen weeks a semester, many Earlham students unknowingly sponsor the mistreatment of thousands of animals. Virtually every hamburger, chicken wing, bacon strip, scoop of ice cream and omelet in Saga (and...
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by Toivo Asheeke In a world full of crisis, one sometimes wonders where to concentrate one’s energies. In Sudan, in the region of Darfur, over 400,000 people have been killed and over two million people have been displaced from their homes over the last eight years due to intense conflict in the region.
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Cheer: noun, a shout of encouragement, approval, or congratulation. Sneer: noun, a contemptuous or scornful remark. CHEERS to: Incestuous senior hookups! At this point nothing is new, and what else is left to judge? Whoever folded my clothes in the laundry room in Barrett last Sunday. I miss my mom. Meeting you in the...
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by Esther Martin As a senior, I have had four years of experience with the Earlham environment. I have often been struck by how, in a place so dominated by women demographically, conversations are so often dominated by men. Including this opinion page, in which over the past year I have printed only a...
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by Josh Friedberg For this edition of Music Geek’s Encyclopedia, I am focusing on two brilliant talents who are unlimited by genre and deserve a greater contemporary audience — two versatile divas with talent and attitude. The first recorded everything from blues with unsubtle double meanings to duets for early rock ‘n’ roll fans....
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by Anna Lockhart The S.E.L.L.O.U.T. comedy tour’s self-conscious satire played to a receptive crowd last Saturday night in Goddard Auditorium. The S.E.L.L.O.U.T. members call themselves a group of educated black men, each of whom has been accused of being a “sellout” to their race, misrepresenting black men as a group.
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