The Quindecim

The independent student newspaper at Goucher College

Year: 2024

Banned Buddy-Swipes: Buffoonery

Early this semester, a sign was placed in Mary Fisher Dining Hall and in the Student Market alerting students that meal swipes are meant only to be used for the student who is swiping. This meant that swiping a meal…

Introducing Goucher’s New Professors

Before kicking off the 2024 Fall Semester, Goucher welcomes new faculty members to new positions on August 12th. Each professor has brought a wide range of academic disciplines, research, and teaching expertise in areas such as business, environmental science, history,…

I’ll Do It Tomorrow: A Fitting Start for the Season

The fall exhibition season for Goucher kicked off last Thursday, September 19th, with the opening of two exhibitions in both Rosenberg and Silber Art Galleries, as well as the Bond Exhibition Window. I’ll Do It Tomorrow, currently in the Silber…

Summer Recap: Artscape 2024 In Photos

Hosted by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts (BOPA) and has entered its 40th season, Artscape 2024 – heralded as one of the largest free arts festival in the United States of America – was held on August…

Taming Adaptation: Tips from an Under-qualified Fan

Growing up Demi-God Think of a story, any story that you love to revisit over and over. The one that you return to when you need to fill your belly. Now imagine someone gave you thousands of dollars and told…

 Insectoid Invasion on Goucher’s Campus

Goucher has a problem. Well, it has many problems, but there’s one in particular that I want to talk about in this article: spotted lanternflies. Now if you’ve been on this campus for more than 5 seconds, you’ve surely seen…

A Peek at the Mystery Genre with Maria Melendez Kelson

As a part of Hispanic Heritage Month and this year’s visiting author series, the Kratz Center invited Maria Melendez Kelson, winner of the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, on campus to talk about her new book…

Anti-zionism vs. Antisemitism: A Bystander’s Inquiry & Where Goucher Falls

* Disclaimer: The Quindecim editorial team has made a rare exemption to allow this writer to publish without their full name, due to fear of academic retaliation and safety concerns, but has verified their status as a student. This piece…

Choreographer Profile: Chris Law

By Tess Seibert Christopher Law (he/him) has been dancing for around 25 years; he is co-director of DMV artistic collective Project ChArma — “pronounced Karma because it guides our lives” — and a professor here at Goucher. Until recently, he…

A Look into Slow Time from Professor Antje Rauwerda

By Jaiden Johnson On April 12th, the Kratz Center hosted a reading of Slow Time, a novel written by one of Goucher’s longtime professors, Antje Rauwerda. Rauwerda is a Professor of British and Post-Colonial Literature, but over her 20 years…