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Protesters oppose SOA weapons trainin...
by Chrissy Sollenberger
Three carloads of Earlham students snapped in their seatbelts and headed to Fort Benning military base in Columbus, Ga. to attend the School of the Americas (SOA) protest.
The SOA is a military combat training base for Latin American soldiers. Soldiers trained at SOA have been involved with the muders, tortures and d [...]
Earlham students launch Food Not Bomb...
by Terah Primack
Recently, two students have begun to organize a division of the food pantry group Food Not Bombs in the Richmond area.
Senior Rosalie Jacobson and freshman Olivia Thornburg have spearheaded the project and are looking for more students who might be interested in helping them.
“Food not bombs is an anti-hunger organization,” [...]
Words and music come together at conv...
by Cem Erez
Earlham students got a glimpse of where art could take them at this past Wedneday’s convocation, “Diverging Roads and Crossing Paths: The Collaborative Process in Poetry and Music.”
Earlham class of 1997 graduate Lisa Pegram teamed up with composer David Arbury to create a medly of poetry and music that will have its world prem [...]
New café brings kitsch to historical ...
by Breena Siegel
Pete’s Corner Café was a happy accident, according to Dewey Williams, also known as Pete, who is the owner of the café. The space was originally going to be a cheesecake spot but the business fell through and Pete half-heartedly considered taking it over.
“I jokingly looked at my wife and said let’s start in Richmond,” he sa [...]
Ways to de-stress for success during ...
by Rebecca Ogle
As the end of the semester draws near, professors’ deadlines tighten, students’ workloads grow and stress becomes a campus-wide epidemic.
The long-term solution to stress-free living is maintaining a balanced lifestyle, scheduling reasonable time for play as well as work. But how can you avoid stress during a deluge of pape [...]
He’s got rhythm, he’s got...
by Adam Tobin
It is obvious to anyone who encounters music instrctor Pavel Polanco-Safadit that he is very energetic, as he readily admits. That energy signifies a deep passion and love of music, shown as he leads Earlham’s jazz ensemble.
As the band dives into a few bars, Polanco-Safadit becomes animated, paces the aisle like a dancer, move [...]
Bike Co-op offers knowledge, needs su...
by Mia Herring, Rosie Jacobson and Katie Laushman
Hey, we’re the Earlham Bike Co-op. You may have heard a lot of stuff about us, both good and bad, but we are here to clear things up and ask you for help.
The Bike Co-op was started in 2005 by some nice dudes who graduated. They saw that Earlham talks big game about being environmentally frien [...]
Cheers & Sneers
CHEERS to:
Dad for sending me a backup hard drive a week before my computer crashed.
Drunk cross eyes.
Ross’ facial hair looking good.
Dorothy Parker.
The co-op reopening.
Getting ready to win triathlon.
Netflix movies so good you have to “lose” them.
Taking friends back home for Thanksgiving.
Eating deer and squirrel for Thanksgiving dinne [...]
Simple solution ignored in campus smo...
by Cem Erez
As many of you will agree, we have a serious problem on our hands. For too long we’ve sat by and said nothing as this “disease” takes over many of our fellow students. But no more. I will not tolerate this plague that’s turning my friends into hippies, druggies and terrorists anymore. I’m talking, of course, about smoking.
Did you [...]
After seven semesters on the Word, ed...
by María Salvador
This issue of the newspaper is the last one this semester. I want to thank our readers for their critiques and support to the newspaper, for collaborating with us and helping us improve. The Word definitely appreciates hearing from you what we are doing well and where we are lacking, so we can serve you better.
In the semes [...]
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