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By: Shannon Smith
Update 5/8 8:45 PM
According to Associate Provost Maris Gillette, "John Muse and Vicky Funari have accepted a two-year contract from Haverford, to teach courses in support of the Visual Studies Initiative," a hire partially funded by the John B. Hurford '80 Center for the Arts and Humanities. "Vicky will teach a set of documentary filmmaking courses at beginner and advanced levels, and John will offer his Introduction to Visual Studies, some new courses on exhibitions and display, digital media praxis, ...
By: Katie Greifeld
The giant inflatable rat at the edge of the Nature Trail is no longer, after negotiations between local trade unions and the United States Golf Association (USGA) ended in agreement.
The rat has symbolized the discontent of the local carpenters' and stage hands' labor unions, who began protesting the USGA near Featherbed Field on March 25. Protestors lined the lower section of the trail for weeks, usually staying until 3 or 4 p.m.
In preparation for the US Open, which will be held ...
By: Staff
Haverford is making preparations to receive an influx of Mawrtyrs next year.
According to the Bi-Co News, after the discovery of “asbestos on structural beams,” Bryn Mawr will close the residential portion of Haffner, which also houses a dining hall, for renovations that will take nine months.
The abrupt discovery means Bryn Mawr is short 78 beds, and with just a few weeks to go before the room draw, administrators reached out to Haverford's Vice President of Finance and Administration Dick Wynn ...
By: Ian Gavigan
Starting next year, passengers on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, can expect to ditch the tokens and start using a modernized 'smart card' payment system.
The new system also means fares will go up starting as soon as July 1 this year, the first change in cash fares in over a decade.
According to a March 14 press release, the New Payment Technology system, or NPT, will feature smart cards which patrons can purchase before a trip at kiosks in ...
By: Thy Anh Vo
Updated 4/14, 4:22 p.m.
While there is broad agreement among informed faculty and senior staff that a more equal financial aid policy for undocumented applicants is a "social justice issue," there's no consensus about where the issue ranks among the College's financial priorities.
Last year, students passed a resolution calling on the administration to change its admission and financial aid policies for undocumented applicants. But except for a few weeks of online debate after a student impersonated Interim President Joanne Creighton in ...
By: Thy Anh Vo
Two professors in the Biology department are leaving Haverford at the end of this year for Columbia University, according to a department email from interim chair Judith Owen.
Professor of Biology Jenni Punt, a 1983 graduate of Bryn Mawr, will become Associate Dean for Student Research at Columbia. Punt will join her husband and former 13th President Stephen Emerson '74, currently director of the university's Herbert Irving Cancer Center, where together they will "continue to run their research program in stem ...
By: Staff
With acceptance letters out in the mail late March, the campus has been flooded with tours of eager admitted students and their families scoping out the 'Ford. While the Admissions Office won't have a full profile on the incoming class of 2017 until later this year, they've given us some initial numbers on the students accepted for this coming Fall. Look out for prospectives on Open Campus Day April 21st.
Overall Applications: 3590
Total Admits: 835
23.3% admit rate
Women/Men 55.6% / 44.4%
Students of ...
By: Katie Greifeld
With 75 percent of the student body needed to reach quorum at Sunday's Special Plenary, Honor Council is taking extra measures to get more students to attend.
According to Honor Council co-chair Tamar Hoffman '15, to encourage attendance, pizza and stronger internet access will be provided. All campus libraries will be closed as well.
“We hope to reach quorum as soon as possible and hope that students will realize the level of importance that their attendance holds,” said Hoffman.
Special Plenary is capped ...
By: Thy Anh Vo
This past week, the Board's International Council, an advisory committee to the President on global issues and perspectives, hosted its first annual meeting in Asia at the W Hotel in Hong Kong.
The move east signals increased attention by the College to prospective students in Asia, says Vice President of Institutional Advancement Michael Kiefer, after years of meeting in Western cities like Paris and London.
“It seems shortsighted not to evolve the membership of the committee to include more members from Asia, ...
By: Thy Anh Vo
After the Honor Code failed to garner the two-thirds majority required for ratification, student leaders have been scrambling to navigate the process of convening a Special Plenary, which isn't stipulated or defined in the Code itself - and to determine if the Code is still in effect.
"There's no specification in the Constitution or the Honor Code about what happens in this interim period between Plenary and Special Plenary," said Honor Council co-chair Tamar Hoffman '15.
The Code stipulates that, should it fail ...