The Quindecim

The independent student newspaper at Goucher College

Month: September 2025

Shelf Talk: Short Stories, A Jane Austen Remix, & Literary Fiction

Despite the new year school starting, I have managed to pull myself out of a reading slump, and have picked up some good books over the course of the last two weeks. Here is what I have read and recommend. …

Poem: Gazebo

A little gazebo, Not too far from our home.  It’s a place of our own, that no one else can know. The boards shift and creak beneath my weight. The sky lets loose a downpour of rain, And leaves on…

Quinn Listens: Bleeds

On Friday, September 19th, Asheville quintet Wednesday released Bleeds. The album came as a follow up to the vivid Rat Saw God. Similar to Rat Saw God, Bleeds is almost twelve short stories collected into an album.  Frontwoman Karly Hartzman’s…

Gopher Advice: A Completely Confidential Social Advice Column

Where does self-confidence come from in other people, and how can I work on developing it? Self-esteem is a struggle for me right now. – Self-Conscious in Sondheim Dear Self-Conscious, You are not alone in your struggle. In fact, I’ve…

Goucher Student Leadership: Lost to Time?

A Response to Shawanda Ayers’ 2000 Quindecim Piece I was reading old Quindecims, as one does, and ran across Shawanda Ayers’ November 8th, 2000 piece titled “Does Goucher Have Adequate Student Leadership?” She answered that Goucher has student leadership problems…