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No break for baseball: one for six in...
By Bryant Foreman
Conference Opener
In a two-day, four-game series, the Quakers couldn’t come out on top against the Wittenberg Tigers and fell 15-4 and 9-4 on Saturday, then lost both Sunday games 5-0 and 4-1.
Although Earlham fared a little better against the Tigers on the second day, they were humbled to suffer the final two losses of the [...]
Tennis teams gear up for home opener
By Aleta Cox
With the weather getting warmer, outside activities are beginning to buzz, including the first home match for both the women’s and men’s tennis teams’ seasons against Denison University tomorrow at Earlham.
In recent years, Denison’s women’s and men’s team have been ranked nationally, so both teams will use this match to assess w [...]
ESG weighs in on… Principles an...
By Earlham Student Government
The Principles and Practices Review Committee has been working diligently to revise one of Earlham’s central documents.
As you may remember, the committee spent a considerable amount of time listening to concerns and comments from many constituencies on campus over the course of the fall semester. Since that time [...]
Increasing work-study hours would giv...
By Gabriel Middaugh
The years students spend at an American college are generally known for eight things: more challenging classes than high-school, new relationships, new friends, dorm-life and new social contexts, opportunities to travel, potentially “growing up” a little, slowly figuring out what major one wants and accumulating little or [...]
Electronics have bloody cost to Afric...
By Simon Levine
West of Rwanda and Lake Tanganyika, the roads become impassable and the land grows eerily silent.
The people are sparsely populated in this far-flung province of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), about six million spread out over more than 100,000 square kilometers of verdant hillsides. Covering these hills is one of [...]
Admissions growth, diversity key to v...
By Doug Bennett
Admissions burst onto both the front page and the opinion page of the Word just before spring break. It’s an important topic because through admissions we’re deciding who gets to be an Earlham student. It is an extraordinary privilege being a member of this community.
By any comparison, Earlham is a small college. Hardly any c [...]
Eat with your hands, conserve more at...
By Mark Christianson
Saga is making a transition toward trayless service. There are two major reasons given for this switch.
First, less food will be wasted. As stated in the “Sodexo Dining Initiative,” eliminating trays “substantially diminishes food waste by encouraging guests to only take the amount of food they can carry.”
Second, washing [...]
Horoscopes of the week
By Rosa Ostrom
Aries (March 21 – April 19):
You may have been wanting to crawl into a big cardboard box this week. Never fear — things are going to get better soon.
Taurus (April 20 – May 20):
You’ve probably spotted that mouse hole under your bed. If you’re in the mood for adventure, grab a flashlight and climb on in.
Gemini (May 21 – Ju [...]
PostSecret encourages dialogue on men...
By Jonas Shellhammer
“You don’t know, but I’ve made up my mind to leave you,” the postcard reads. “I’m just trying to decide when.”
This is one of the many anonymous secrets that are part of the official PostSecret blog, a community art project that displays secrets submitted on homemade postcards.
Earlham’s chapter of Active Minds is emulati [...]
Student plans garden as service, educ...
By William Duffee
Children at the TownsendCommunity Center will soon be getting their hands dirty, thanks to Earlham junior Mary Jones.
Jones is organizing a children’s community garden for the Townsend center as part of her Bonner Scholar service. She projects planting to begin in May and continue as a summer program.
“In May and in June the [...]
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