The Quindecim

The independent student newspaper at Goucher College

Life at Goucher

Bathroom Break

Edition 01 Mary Fisher Lower Floor: ★★★1/2  Dear reader, It has long since been customary for one to require some sort of reading material to accompany them on particularly long trips to the loo. In decades passed, the frequent choice…

Van Meter Runway: Third Time’s a Charm 

Welcome to the third edition of the series where I find fashionable people on campus and do quick interviews with them to showcase their outfits. In this edition, you can look forward to some outfits for rainy-days and the final…

Bathroom Break

Edition 5 Hoffberger First Floor: ★★★1/2  Dear reader, It has long since been customary for one to require some sort of reading material to accompany them on particularly long trips to the loo. In decades passed, the frequent choice of…

Goucher Life as a Transfer Student

This Spring marks my first semester at Goucher College – I’m a transfer student who studied at Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) for two years. At CCBC, I worked hard in my courses and tried to find out what…

2019 to 2023: A Retrospective the Tumultuous Four Years at Goucher

What’s Changed, What Hasn’t, and How Goucher Students Have Banded Together Through It All. It has never been a more eventful time to be a Goucher College student. When the class of 2023 entered in late August 2019, no one…

Meet the New Dean of Students, Justin R. Smith Ed.D.

On April 3, Dean Justin R. Smith began his new role at Goucher as the Associate Vice President for student well-being and Dean of Students. Smith’s new role comes with the responsibility for the planning, implementation, and assessment of comprehensive…

Accessibility Updates in Newly Released Campus Master Plan PDF

On April 3rd, President Kent Devereaux sent out an email announcing updates to the Campus Master Plan (CMP) website including “a PDF version of the complete 158-page plan for everyone’s review… supplemented with over 500 pages of appendices.”  This update…

How Commuters Fare at a School That Requires On-Campus Residency

Goucher’s undergraduate students are required to reside on-campus as residential living is pivotal to the close-knit community that the college aims to cultivate. The few exceptions made to this rule leaves a small, but significant group of undergraduates out of…

Goucher To Hold First Gala Since 2019

After a three-year-long absence, the Goucher community is once again holding its annual Gala, this year with an Enchanted Forest theme. A tradition dating back to the 1980s, the event has not been held since the 2019-20 school year due…

“Let’s Talk About Sex” Offers Fruitful Environment for Sex Education

On March 31, Goucher’s Health and Wellness Center hosted Let’s Talk About Sex, a special event in the Hyman Forum of the Athenaeum that encourages sex education. The event embraces being open about sexual relationships by having stations set up…