The Quindecim

The independent student newspaper at Goucher College

Month: February 2019

President Position Profile Released

Around 5pm on February 25th, a President Position Profile was released to the public on Goucher College’s website. This comes as the latest development in a presidential search process conducted by the Presidential Search Committee, which has been advised by…

Presidential Search Enters Confidential Phase

The search for a new president of Goucher College began in October of last year, after an email was sent out to the student body from Ruth Lenrow, chair of the Board of Trustees. Since then, a Presidential Search committee…

Book Review: The Odyssey, Translated by Emily Wilson

I read The Odyssey my sophomore year of high school, and the beautifully antiquated English and repetitive, ornamented epithets of the “wine-dark” sea and “rosy-fingered” dawn were not enough to entice me towards forming a personal connection with the text….

Bumblebee: or, How They Finally Got It Right

The Transformers were kid toys; they were literally meant to be played by children. You wouldn’t know it, though, based on the previous decade of movies: long, ponderous, grim, unintelligible, and so, so boring. In recent years, the Michael Bay…

The Mule and the Legacy of Clint Eastwood

When looking at Wikipedia to research this review, I learned that Clint Eastwood is a big fan of jazz. It was one of those moments where, suddenly, a whole lot of things snapped into place. So much of Eastwood’s filmography,…

WiFi: An Ultimate Guide for the Best Connection

photo credit: Goucher College IT Welcome back to Goucher! As the semester starts, we are all getting re-adjusted to early mornings and late nights, meaning hours spent on homework. On January 25th, IT informed students, via email, that there will…

Restroom Review – First Year Village

Hi! I’m Julia Haworth, a first-year Communications major. Last semester, Neassa Hunt began writing bathroom reviews, but she has since graduated, and so I’m taking up bathroom reviews this semester! Enjoy! Ah. The First-Year Village. From the rotting food and…

Unionization of Goucher Student Workers

To be a student worker at Goucher can mean many things. Job hours range drastically from two hours a week to twenty. Many students’ long hours of work results in their social life, clubs, and, most importantly, education being sidelined….

An Ode to Stimson

“Your shirt smells like Stimson,” someone tells you. There’s not a specific smell that you can pinpoint as smelling like an entire building, but you know exactly what they mean. Yet — you haven’t been in Stimson in, like, eight…

resistance

  i love our soft forms of resistance quick kisses in the hotel hallway laughing together while getting eaten by mosquitoes touching our toes together in a hot tub it’s a hot summer full of anger and fear i’m swimming…