Critters on Campus: Sookie Dorr
This is Sookie. Yes, she was named after the character from Gilmore Girls. She’s the sweetest bully you’ll ever meet, being joyfully disrespectful at every turn. Found in a tire as just a tiny kitten, she immediately captured the heart…
Studying Abroad in an Active Political Insurrection
“This feels like a preview for the future of our country.” After two days of what felt like quarantine all over again, I was walking to the grocery store with a fellow US American student studying abroad. She made the…
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…
Why I Have a Dorm Cat (And You Should Too!)
There are only seventeen registered emotional support animals on this campus, and I believe that we need to get those numbers up. Why, you ask? Picture this, you come back to your room after a long day of classes, throw…
Playing the Mysterious Loins Disc Golf Course with the Maxes
Goucher is one of the only colleges on the East Coast to have a disc golf course. Despite this, few at Goucher have played, or even know the course exists. It was designed to have 9 main holes and a…