Opinion – The Quindecim

Bring Back The Gopher Hole!

Published on April 21, 2025 by The Quindecim

What is a third space, and why is it important to student life? A third space is defined as “the social surroundings that are separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace.” These spaces are essential to allow students to relieve the stress that comes with being a college student, and to foster an area outside of classes for community building.

Currently, when you Google ‘Goucher College,’ one of the first things shown is our graduation rate of 66%. While this number may have changed since last updated, it is still way lower than it has to be. One of the collective largest complaints amongst students is the student life, or lack thereof. The SGA has attempted to address this issue on numerous occasions, with their meeting minutes simply stating that “Third spaces are being discussed” on March 5th, and that “There will be more information about third spaces coming out,” as discussed on April 2nd.

At the April 2nd SGA meeting, President Kent Devereaux himself said how important these spaces are. He stated how they could build “students’ connection to community,” and that “four VPs are looking into this further.” If the collective agreement is that third spaces are so important, why are students frequently left in the dark, wondering when or even if things are going to change?

This is especially the case when we have the spaces available for student use. The spaces, such as the Gopher Hole, that sit full of life and alumni stories, yet their doors seem eternally locked. In its prime, the Gopher Hole was not only a place separate from academics, but also a place that belonged to the student body. Peers could share their talents at an open mic night, watch bands play, have a movie night, or just speak to each other in a context outside of simply being co-workers.

At a school where we have so many talented musicians, poets, and performers that are willing and eager to share their skill sets with each other, we need a space to do this. And we have one, sitting unused. I interviewed two student performers, Elowyn Ingler ‘28, an electric bassist, and Kate Wisneskey ‘28, a pianist and keyboardist, about their passion for music and their desire to share it.

When asked about the sense of community at Goucher, Kate Wisneskey stated, “I definitely think that with Goucher, you have to put in a lot of effort to find spaces to have community. Because there are no areas to foster conversation and to foster shared culture, and I feel like with how diverse we are as a student body, we need a space in which we can share what is important to us.”

“I really think that music is an incredible medium for that, and I really wish that there was a space in which we could share that piece of the conversation. I really think that could help build community, which is a big struggle here.” Music and performance is a strong motivator for so many students here, and it is such a strong foundation for connection.

Elowyn Ingler shared stories of a performance cafe in her hometown, and how many people she met through that. “I have met people there who talked about creating bands, musicians have met each other there and have been able to make some really cool things happen. I feel like we have this space where, if we wanted to, we could do something similar there.”

There is one simple solution to Goucher college’s retention rate problem, and it has been sitting in front of us this whole time. It is time to give the Gopher Hole another life, it’s time to put the handle back on the door and let students on that empty stage. All the administration needs to do is to trust its students, and to open the doors for us to get back the community connection this campus once felt.

By Sara Geitner, ‘28

Goucher Radio: Fear and Loathing at Loyola College

Published on March 3, 2025 by The Quindecim

Photo Credit: Olivia Barnes

Transcript:

OLIVIA: I’m Olivia Barnes.

The NCAA has come under national attention for something besides March Madness. Transgender student athletes have entered the public consciousness with concerns of fairness and moral panic, especially of transfeminine athletes competing in women’s single-sexed events.  I went to the landmark swimming championship as a trans woman to swim and hear how this has affected sports on a localized level.

On February 5th, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled, quote “Keeping Men out of Women’s Sports” unquote. The president had talked about banning transgender athletes on the campaign trail, so this was not a surprise.  

DONALD TRUMP: With my action this afternoon, we are putting every school receiving taxpayer dollars on notice that if you let men take over women’s sports teams or invade your locker rooms, you will be investigated for violations of title nine and risk your federal funding. There will be no federal funding.

OLIVIA: In a Student Government meeting on February 12th, Goucher President Kent Devereaux spoke on how this order would affect Goucher college.  President Devereaux was adamant that the federal actions affecting the college would be held in court on unconstitutionality. When I asked how Goucher would handle losing federal funding if the order was enforced, the president cited Goucher college’s seventy-million dollar budget, and having only received five million from the federal government. The loss would be less than the 15 million that he reported the college lost due to COVID-19.  

The president did not express plans to prohibit transgender students from their preferred bathrooms in addition to stressing commitment to DEI efforts and requiring judicial warrants for ICE officers to come on campus.

On the matter, President Devereaux said, quote,

CLIP: Don’t expect me to make performative statements on this.

OLIVIA: The NCAA responded to President Trump’s executive order on February 6th with a policy update, saying, quote,

CLIP: A student athlete assigned male at birth may not compete on a woman’s team.  

OLIVIA:Unquote. And quote,

CLIP: A student athlete assigned female at birth who has begun hormone therapy may not compete on a woman’s team. If such competition occurs, the team is subject to NCAA mixed team legislation, and the team will no longer be eligible for the NCAA women’s championships.

OLIVIA: The landmark conference championships were held at the Mangione Aquatic Center at Loyola University. In a recent article from the New York Times, which, as a newspaper is conventionally considered to have a politically liberal readership, commenters on an article about the president’s executive order were generally favorable towards the change.  Matt from Royal Oak, Michigan wrote,

CLIP: Why can’t we ban transgender athletes while also accepting their humanity and providing them support?

OLIVIA: And M. Roberts, in Tokyo, wrote,

CLIP: This is just common sense. Probably one of the only Trump politics that will end up making sense aside from deporting illegal immigrants who committed crimes and strengthening border policies.  

OLIVIA:A recent poll from the New York Times and Ipsos concluded that, quote,

CLIP: 94% of Republicans and 67% of Democrats believed that transgender women should not compete against other women.

OLIVIA: This statistic, along with comments from readers on the article, led to me approaching the conference with an expectation of hostility. I was expecting more resistance to my existence than I got.

I was lucky that the commissioner of our conference got around forcing me to use the men’s locker room by letting me use a gender-neutral restroom in an office usually reserved for conference officials. It was a run of the mill, ADA compliant bathroom. The only issue I faced with the bathroom was that I had to share it with the coaches and referees, which meant that whenever I wanted to change into my swimsuit, I usually had to wait at least 15 minutes before I could change while someone else was in the bathroom.  I remember saying to one of my teammates that the nicest thing about the bathroom was that I wasn’t forced to use the men’s locker room.

After that, the conference continued as anyone would expect. I swam two individual races, getting eighteenth, and a personal best, in the 1650 freestyle.  Over the course of four days I had been expecting a confrontation with either conference officials or other swimmers, but the reality is that the athletes at the landmark conference championships are not there to make statements on gender or politics.

They were there for the same reason I was.

JACK:I’m actually a diver.  But My name’s Jack Walsh. I’m from Catholic University.

LENA: Okay, okay, I’m Lena.  I’m from Juniata College and I swim breaststroke.

RICKY:My name is Ricky Kilichowski. I’m a junior at Drew University and my main event is the 200 backstroke.  

OLIVIA: As you may know, though there was a new NCAA guideline saying that transgender folks have to use the locker room, they have to swim on single-sex events corresponding to their assigned sex of birth. What’s your initial reaction to this as an athlete?

JACK: In all honesty, it doesn’t bother me, like I don’t particularly care.  So it didn’t surprise me or bother me or anything like that. Whatever bathroom someone uses doesn’t bother me. I’m not particularly one to care or care about other people, you know, let someone live their life and whatever they do doesn’t doesn’t bother me.  

LENA; I hate it.

OLIVIA: You hate it?

LENA: Yeah, and it-I use they/them pronouns and that like, just like, don’t be a baby about it. Like-let people do what they want. It really does not make it not that big of a deal. And I think, like, people are just uneducated and don’t know what they’re talking about and they just make these rules because of, like, higher powers-President Trump.  

Like, they’re just making these rules to go along with, like, what they think is correct, even though they don’t actually know what is correct.

RICKY: I mean, I think you should be able to go on whatever-what, sorry-whatever bathroom you identify as, I-that’s if you’re someone who identifies as a woman, I feel like you should be able to use the woman’s bathroom.

OLIVIA:Would you have any opposition to swimming in a single sex event against a swimmer of the opposite sex?  

JACK: Ours is kind of unique in that men’s in women’s diving is a pretty even sport because there are in all honesty, some attributes that are as men are better at than women and women are better at than men. Men have a better jump. They’re stronger off the board so they can get more height. Women have a little bit more of a-like control over the body so they’re smoother, so it ends up being pretty similar in and in points and all that. So honestly I wouldn’t care.  

LENA:I don’t care. I like-I will swim against ever and like, win or lose, good race, like good job.

RICKY:I personally have no issue with that.  I know some people do, but I disagree. I think-I think whatever you would like to identify as is what you should be able to compete against, whether it’s a girl who identifies as a guy or vice versa. I feel like you should be able to compete against what you want to be, you know what I mean?  

OLIVIA: The athletes were at the last big meet of the season to determine that year’s champions, so the swimmers were focused on swimming their best races of the season. Every athlete I interviewed or asked to interview about their opinions on transgender athletes either declined because they felt that they didn’t know enough about the issue or explicitly stated that they didn’t care that they shared a pool with transgender athletes.

On the last night of the meet there was an energy in the air that you cannot find anywhere else. A mixture of exhaustion, chlorine and noise filled the air as swimmers swam their last races. teams would all gather behind the lanes of their teammates swimming to cheer them on, and for a brief moment it felt like the entire world was watching our races.  Any argument about locker rooms or gender ideology were irrelevant for the student athletes who had worked so hard to get where they were when the conference was finished, we packed our things and left, and that was that.

This article was made with reporting by myself and production by Jimmy and editing by RAR. The audio of Donald Trump came from the Associated Press and is included under fair use.  The quote from Kent Deverux was read by Christian Houck, the NCAA guidelines were read by Emily Strickland. The New York Times comments were read by Sam Rose and Opal Monaghan. These statistics from the poll by Ipsos and the New York Times were read by Eden Rovner.  You’re listening to Goucher radio. a part of the Quindecim. I’m Olivia Barnes. See you in two weeks.  Goodbye.

A Goucher Ice Cream Showdown!

Published on March 3, 2025 by The Quindecim

We, as a community, need to reassess the serious issue of the best place to get ice cream on campus, as Taharka Bros. Ice Cream has entered the fray. Before we begin, I am limiting this to on campus ice cream options any Goucher community member can get regular access to. So, we are not considering irregularly visiting ice cream trucks, Cold Stone, Holy Cow, Insomnia Cookies, “frozen dairy desserts,” Student Market milkshakes, or any homemade ice cream.

Let us start with Hershey’s in the Dining hall. With four rotating flavors, 3-6 toppings (chocolate chips, mini m&m’s, Oreos, caramel chips, rainbow sprinkles, and sometimes something else), two syrups (Hershey’s chocolate and Smucker’s caramel), self-service, and ease of access to other foods to combo with (waffles, brownies, cookies, etc.), we start with a strong contender.

In terms of cost, it is more of a mixed bag, as it is included in a meal swipe to access the Mary Fisher Dining Hall. The bundling of ice cream with the dining hall also means if you just want ice cream, a whole meal swipe is required. For a first-year student who is required to have at least the 19 meal plan, this will just fold into their $3,980 meal plan cost. However, a visitor who might be swayed to join the Goucher will have to pay 20 dollars to enter our dining hall to experience this.

Hershey’s taste as an ice cream brand is one of the worst large-scale commercially available ice creams. Nevertheless, the variety of flavors means some outperform other brands. I am partial to Chocolate marshmallow and cookies and cream, but cannot deny Graham Central Station’s unique power. The big whopper in this is we can mix and combine multiple flavors at no additional cost (to our wallets, other parts of us may feel it).

“We’re always extremely mindful about potential food allergies, so we have not purchased any ice cream flavors that contain nuts. We are able to choose from about 20 different varieties and tend to stick to flavors we know students love,” general manager of Bon Appetit Goucher David Friendlich informed me.

The dining hall does not offer any of Hershey’s Dairy Free (Oatmazing) “ice creams.” But dairy-free sorbet is sometimes available.

In terms of quantity, the dining hall is normally great as you can take as much or as little as you want. However, I have observed flavors occasionally run out and are not restocked the day of, even if Bon Appetit claims to always have four flavors available.

Manager Friendlich has ordered Ghirardelli syrups in the past for the ice cream station, but they have “been out of stock for a while.” After looking into it, Director of Operations Thomas Brown told me that stocking Ghirardelli would be “exuberantly expensive.”

Cake cones are not for me, but having them as an option is nice. Otherwise, the containers normally provided in the dining hall are small plastic cups and are adjacent to plastic spoons. These are useful when you need to leave Mary Fisher after a middling meal to get to class quickly and throw them out on route. But for environmental reasons, availability reasons, and optimal ice cream consumption reasons, this option is imperfect. Better options, such as washable bowls, mugs, spoons, plates, and cups, exist elsewhere in the dining hall. Mugs and metal spoons are my personal pick even with the inconvenience of having to grab them from across the dining hall.

The urban legend of a caring alumni donating money to permanently guarantee ice cream in the dining hall is false. But any alumni with excess funds could donate to guarantee more ice cream flavors are always available.

I heard rumors that there were six flavors available (consistent chocolate and Vanilla and four other flavors) years ago, when the Orange Room was open. I have also heard there were fountains to clean the scoops, in a way perhaps better than the current system of stagnant water. The water for scoops is supposedly changed by staff every 30 minutes. When the Orange room opens again, I ask the Goucher community to consider what we may gain in ice cream and use our ability to write feedback forms to convince Bon Appetite to open this world to us.

David Friendlich told me, “we always appreciate student feedback and suggestions to improve the dining program at Goucher!”

Overall, Mary Fisher Ice cream gets a rating of nine large bronze scoops covered in as many toppings as I can fit.

Next up, we have Goucher’s spirit/bookstore (with no books in person) and its numerous options. However, most of the frozen items are not ice cream and therefore I did not have to shell out the money necessary to try them for this review. The generic looking frozen dairy dessert sandwich almost fooled me into believing it was an ice cream sandwich.

In terms of cost, the store does not accept dining dollars, only Gopher bucks or American money, but a few items are under 5 dollars.

In terms of pint options: I believe Häagen-Dazs is top tier ice cream and Ben and Jerry’s is above average.

Magnum ice cream bars are a personal favorite, but the only available flavor of double caramel is not my first choice, even though it crushes most ice cream options on campus in terms of taste.

Original Klondike bars are the consistent good option. They unfortunately only sell the original. What would you do for a Klondike bar?

“My Mochi Ice cream,” at a price of $8.68, is interesting to say the least. Strawberry was the only flavor available. It was a strong artificial flavor, with a mochi outside and slightly melted ice cream inside. I hated the texture and taste.

Nestle Toll House chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches are not great as cookie sandwiches, are better made elsewhere, and Nestle is evil. I have joined the Nestlé boycott, so I can only say from my memories of having it five years ago that they are okay.

With many flavors and brands to choose from there is room for variation. But mixing and matching with other foods and flavors is harder than the dining hall. Obviously, you have to provide your own container and serving utensil, unless you decide to eat out of the ice cream tub like a pig.

As a collective, I give the school store ice cream a rating of 2 small golden scoops sitting atop 3 bent weird sapphire scoopers.

For our surprise locations, we have the Gopher Hole and Alice’s. Although currently abandoned, hopes and dreams of imaginary ice cream fill them in. If we do not have hope for more food options on campus what do we have left? I rate this one scoop of the ghost of ice cream future past.

And finally, in the student Market and the talk of the town: Taharka Bros. Ice Cream.

With a cost of six dollars and fifty cents, this might be one of the best deals in the Student Market. Which might be why I have seen it run out already. Ordering a set of 8 pints to deliver to campus through the Tarharka website (without any discounts) costs 65 dollars. Plastic Spoons and bowls are available adjacent to the freezer.

Taharka is arguably the best ice cream on campus. I have only tried a few flavors, starting from chocolate, and it was great. “Mintflix and Chillz” was good except for the few bits I had with way too much peppermint. The cookie dough flavor was solid, but nothing more. Currently Taharka Brothers Ice Cream has the fewest flavors available, but this may change in the future if demand remains high.

It also has multiple non-dairy “ice creams,” but some of the flavors do not match up to their dairy counterparts. Non Dairy-Roasted Strawberry was interesting to say the least. The texture was off, and the taste strange, but I will finish the pint I tell myself after over a week of not doing so.

Taharka is more than an ice cream company; it is a part of the Baltimore community. Its work is beyond the scope of my review, but its history and company structure are worth looking at as we build community together in the Baltimore region.

I give this option four medium silver scoops with a side of a repetitive pick three.

With that, our tour of ice cream locations on campus is over, we have our clear winner, and we can all go back to practicing literary analysis for our interdisciplinary class.

By Max Ravnitzky ’28

Rainbows at Goucher

Published on February 17, 2025 by The Quindecim

As I walked up the front stairs of Van Meter on Friday February 14^th, 2025, I took in the many beautiful rainbows that naturally form there. Some were faded, others bright and proud. Some were broken, some solid. Most were small, but a few were larger.

I was inspired.

I have seen these rainbows before, but never so many. The experience has made me reflect on the current social climate, and Goucher’s future.

Does Goucher live up to its claims of diversity and inclusion? Do I create spaces for people to be themselves? Will President Kent Deveraux’s administration protect the most vulnerable of our community from the malicious attacks of the current President of the United States of America and his supporters?

I am not sure of the answers to these questions.

On Wednesday, President Kent reassured students on campus with his comments to the Student Government Association(SGA) general assembly(GA). The office of Equity & Inclusive Excellence (EIE) also sent out a supportive message on Friday February 14, 2025, but in these chaotic times, it didn’t instill confidence in me.

As a Private Liberal Arts College in Maryland, we are more insular than other colleges, but approximately 5 million dollars of our 70 million dollar budget comes from the Federal Government, according to President Kent. In less than two weeks, SGA will host Chief Financial Officer Brian Hutzley during its GA where I expect interesting questions from the members of SGA and the students who join us.

To get away from the crisis, and focus on the philosophical, what does it mean to be inclusive and diverse? How can we strengthen our community? Should we prioritize DEI (or EIE or whatever other acronym we want to use)?

How do we create a community that values freedom of speech, where everyone feels welcome to voice their mind? I’ve asked a version of this to visiting speaker/Journalist Moustafa Bayoumi, Dean Smith, my peers, and a few other people. I have yet to receive a conclusive answer, and the answers I have gotten only inspired more questions and thoughts.

During an interview with the Vice President for Enrollment Dr. Mike Marshall and Associate Vice President for Enrollment Tania Rachkoskie last fall, it was mentioned that Goucher Admissions is working on submitting its information to the Campus Pride Index. At the time of writing this article, Goucher is still not listed in the Campus Pride Index. But Towson University is there.

On February 14^th, 2025, four small Pride Flags were stuck in the snow next to Van Meter Highway. One of my neighbors had a Trump Flag in their window. How do we allow free speech and prevent hate speech? Some of my peers have told me they believed some recent posters fell conclusively on one side of this.

In comparison, the various (stickered-on) flags of nations in the Hyman forum received praise from other visiting SGAs during the Student Governance Summit. Advertising our growing diversity is good for our reputation among those who Goucher really needs to woo: student leaders who will become “global changemakers.”

Diversity, both visible and invisible, is a strength of America, Maryland, and Goucher. How can we let this beauty shine through?

To our artists, physicists, and architects, how can we incorporate light and rainbows into our campus and any structure we design? To those who will take part in designing Goucher’s future, I ask you to use stone in buildings and incorporate rainbows in an intelligent way.

I want more rainbows.

By Max R., ’28

Forgotten Students: The Commuter’s Struggle

Published on February 17, 2025 by The Quindecim

When I first started my journey as a commuter student at Goucher, I was excited to have the freedoms that come with living off campus while still experiencing the community advertised at Goucher. Goucher had been advertised to me as a tight-knit school with plenty of opportunities to get involved and build relationships, and I was assured that being a commuter would not affect that at all. Unfortunately, the Goucher experience I had dreamed of was just that, a dream.

I learned very quickly that being a commuter was a great way to ensure that you were left out of any and all events on campus. Because I wasn’t a resident student living in close quarters with other students, I was immediately behind on social life at Goucher and at a disadvantage for making friends.

Last minute campus events, parties, and casual hangouts were out of the question because I never knew they were happening. Having no meal plan and therefore not being allowed into the dining hall where all of my friends and classmates ate, I sat alone every day. By the halfway point of my first semester, I felt so isolated that I cried nearly every day. My mental health was taking a hit, and it took an immense effort to show up and show an interest in any of my classes. By then I had a small group of friends, and to them I am immensely grateful, but I felt completely cut off from the greater Goucher community.

As it turns out, I am not the only commuter student who feels abandoned by their school. I sent out a survey where commuters could anonymously give feedback and share their experiences. All serious responses reported a negative experience. One commuter part-time student was denied access to designated commuter lockers in the Ath because they are not a full-time student, despite the vast majority of commuter lockers being unused.

Another commuter who is also an athlete shared: “Athletes especially feel these issues. Me personally, for the past two years, I have had to be on campus for twelve plus hours due to classes and practice without being able to eat meals. I’m often alone in the locker room with the two other commuters on my team because we can’t participate in lunch and dinner.” Others stated they feel that they are left out of events, have no voice, and not encouraged to be active members of the Goucher community.

Things started to improve last spring with efforts from Erica Gardner and Denzel Stewart within the Office of Student Engagement (OSE). Gardner and Stewart instituted a monthly commuter meal pass that allows commuter students to eat once a month for free in the dining hall or redeem for a Pick 3 in the student market. They also installed a commuter pantry in the Commuter Lounge with microwaveable meals and other snacks for free. I greatly appreciated the pantry because being on campus longer than anticipated meant going hungry. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Just a few short days after the pantry was opened non-commuter students got into the Commuter Lounge and raided the pantry. They took weeks worth of food and left us with nothing in a matter of minutes. The irresponsibility of a few resident’s actions meant that OSE’s commuter pantry was closed indefinitely for all commuter students, and when it reopened it was relocated to OSE in Mary Fisher where we would be required to show our ID to access food.

Where do we go from here? Faculty, staff, and resident students, commuters need your help to feel integrated into the greater Goucher community. I ask you to advocate for us, invite us, include us, and reach out to us. Integrating commuter students into Goucher life is not a difficult task, and there are definitive steps you can take to ensure we are not left behind:

Consider the location of events. Mary Fisher dining hall is not accessible to commuters, so we cannot participate in any events like bingo, trivia or raffles that take place there. I remember this past fall receiving an email for the Study Abroad Fair taking place in Mary Fisher where all students were encouraged to stop by, but commuters had to RSVP by a certain date and sign in to be allowed entry into the fair. It was embarrassing and exclusionary, and there must be a better way to include commuters.

I have seen several events in just the first few weeks of this semester so far that take place in the First Year Village (FYV). The FYV has always been a place where commuters are quite literally locked out of the Goucher community, having to rely on a friend or helpful resident to let you in for a hangout in the movie room or kitchen. If you cannot host events somewhere obviously accessible to all students, make it clear that commuters are not only welcomed but encouraged to attend, without having to sign up separately.

Consider commuter spaces. The commuter pantry incident was infuriating because it showed that resident students had no respect or consideration for commuters, and they took the little privilege we had that was exclusive to us. The same goes for the current commuter kitchen scenario. Currently, the kitchen in the commuter lounge is littered with boxes, wires, speakers, and other assorted equipment and poles are strewn across the floor in a way that prevents the door from opening fully. Not only is this inconsiderate of our space and takes up the one kitchen table we have, it makes the space inaccessible for students with disabilities and is a fire hazard. Neither commuters nor Denzel Stewart, who oversees commuter life, were informed of this disruption. I can understand the need to temporarily store things in a communal space, but it is just as important with commuters as it is with residents that you give students a heads up and acknowledge that you are inconveniencing people.

Fellow commuters, I encourage you also to reach out and advocate for yourselves. No one will help improve our experience if we do not speak up and ask for change. We need to foster relationships not only with resident students but with other commuters. Building friendships and sharing our experiences will help us feel less isolated and a lot more involved. Whether that means striking up a conversation with someone in the Commuter Lounge, meeting up off campus, or getting involved in extracurriculars when you can, let your voice be heard. A Commuter Club is currently in development, and I believe that is a great place to start.

By Abby Ryan, ‘26

Senator Salaries Slashed: A Response

Published on January 15, 2025 by The Quindecim

I write the following opinion piece as a concerned student, not as a senator, as I cannot represent SGA on this matter.

Facing the dire prospect of exhausting the Student Government Association (SGA) funds before 2026, the SGA enacted its first wage cuts for the 2024/25 academic year. Even with these wage cuts, the SGA projections (assuming all else stays constant) show SGA depleting its funds within 3 years. This situation is unacceptable. The Student body needs to be aware of the financial situation facing the SGA and its potential impact on the student body.

SGA spends significantly more money every semester than it gets from the student activity fee. SGA had a huge surplus of funds due to COVID, when SGA still received revenue from the student activity fee but could not utilize any of it.

The SGA is committed to addressing this issue, and has passed a resolution to establish a balanced budget by the end of the academic year. While I am confident the SGA can achieve this, the path and exact methods to do so still need to be worked out.

The first people to be impacted were SGA members. Senator Jimy said in person, and in his Quindecim opinion piece that he felt that SGA pay should be eliminated entirely. While I disagree with this approach, I thought it was important that the SGA consider it as an option. Treasurer Schaefer-Canner modeled this option in his projections. His analysis indicated that eliminating SGA pay would result in net income for SGA.

Goucher and its student body benefit from compensating SGA members for their time and effort, as it enables more inclusive participation, particularly from those who might otherwise be unable to contribute their time for financial reasons. For many, these financial incentives allows them to commit the necessary time to serve within SGA, and ensure their diverse voices are heard. It is probable that the wage cuts will reduce the diversity of SGA. This in an equity issue to make sure more people’s voices are heard.

With 31 current senators, 3 of those also being committee co-chairs, and capacity for up to 32 senators, a significant chunk of the SGA budget was used on senators despite the minimal hours and pay. I have been informed that this group is the most engaged, diverse, thoughtful senates of late. I believe this is in part due to the pay, and partially due to the current SGA executive board’s efforts to have diverse voices in SGA and Goucher at large.

In addition to Senators, there was a cut to the entire executive branch’s pay and/or hours. This area is likely where significant future cuts will be made.

I agree with the argument that if SGA transitions into an all-volunteer organization, less work will be done, and what little will be done will be done slower. Very few, if any, students have the time and energy to commit 10-20 hours a week for a volunteer position, given academics, club, additional jobs, and other obligations. The talent pool for SGA executive board could shrink significantly. Personally, even as someone passionate about being a voice for students, wanting to assist clubs, organize events/programs, and everything else, it would be hard committing to 20 hours of unpaid labor per week. There are too many other opportunities offering pay or credit, while still providing the fulfilment of making positive impacts on Goucher and beyond.

That being said, I am a realist. SGA has limited funds and should not operate unsustainably. Future cuts in other areas may have a worse impact on the SGA and the Goucher community.

The Textbook Assistance Program, Aunt Flow, and the transportation assistance program are all programs currently provided by the SGA for the student body. These key programs make up a smaller, but still significant portion of the SGA budget. I am against cuts to these programs, but the SGA faces a serious challenge.

SGA has a bunch of smaller miscellaneous costs that I think can be reduced or removed. The biggest of these is the cost of the SGA website. The SGA is estimated to pay $1,800 a year for web services. This should be cut to zero and just put under the larger (free) Goucher website.

SGA is also exploring ways to increase its revenue streams. SGA currently receives $100 per semester from each (non-GPEP) Goucher undergraduate student as part of the $250 student activity fee. The amount obtained from this varies with the student population. The executive branch is looking into raising money from alumni. While I hope that this initiative is successful, we should look for more avenues of revenue generation, to ensure we have the funds to maintain and grow SGA programs, clubs, and student advocacy efforts.

The budgets for most Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) including all student clubs, currently come from SGA and amount to approximately $40,000 a year. I believe supporting clubs is one of the most important tasks of SGA, but with a large percentage of SGA’s money going to clubs, I fear potential cuts. Next year there will be serious discussions about restructuring club budgeting and the way in which SGA distributes money to clubs. This is an opportunity to create a better system for clubs to meet their needs or potentially end up in a precarious system.

I agree with Jimy Kuhn that giving more money to the Quindecim (possibly to be used to pay student reporters) would be a great idea, but it is not possible within our current structure, which limits clubs to a budget of no more than $2,600 a year. Such a change could improve Goucher journalism. The Q is one of several clubs where more money would have a huge impact.

Perhaps some version of the club council may return. SGA should keep the current spread-out system of club budgeting and never return to one-day decision making. However, bringing in more club leadership voices and other student voices remain necessary in our evolving SGA financing system.

I believe that we need to consider a reorganization of SGA and that the SGA executive branch could and should do more to distribute SGA’s workload. Our current senators are underutilized; and having processes so more SGA members are prepared to step up into executive positions is important. Having spoken with Treasurer Schaefer-Canner, I understand his role is important, yet hard to delegate. He has begun creating a document listing his roles, responsibilities, and advice to help his successor. I hope other SGA leaders follow his example, ensuring a smooth transition to future administrations.

Transparency is important in these deliberations. In terms of transparency our current SGA tries its best, almost everything is posted on our website. This is still a work in progress. All of SGA’s general assemblies are open to all Goucher students. SGA’s Communications Director runs the SGA’s Instagram page. Other student outreach programs are in development. Most of the SGA’s executive branch have office hours students should utilize; this is a resource on campus that serves the student body.

The general assembly has discussed how SGA held over $120,000 in covid surplus, and decided to spend it to kickstart SGA and student engagement post Covid. However, this led to a financially unstable system being created. The SGA pay system was mostly established under the controversial leadership of President Ty’lor Schnella. In a prior Quindecim article interview, he said that “GSG (a previous version of SGA) is interesting in that every 2-3 years it implodes… …This is detrimental to the success and continuity of the organization, and consequently, the student voice on campus.” I am worried SGA will follow this pattern, so I would like to work towards a smooth transition to a better system within the framework of SGA that does not “implode” every few years.

It is important to have a thoughtful, responsible SGA President and Vice President especially in light of the power they hold. The voters in our 2025 SGA election should think of the responsibility these offices hold and pick representatives we can trust to serve the whole student body.

By Max Ravnitzky, ’28

2024 Election: How is Goucher Feeling, and What Can We Do?

Published on November 18, 2024 by The Quindecim

November 5th, 2024 is considered one of the most important election days in United States history. The Presidential Election is a day where Americans have the right to have their voices heard and determine who will be the represented face of America. Citizens of America will have a choice on who will be the President of the United States: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. A decision that will impact the future of America and the fate of its citizens can be very stressful! Goucher students agree that the lives of LGBT people, women, immigrants, and the working class are on the line in this election, which brings in anxiety towards how the American population will vote for who will seal their fates.

It has been confirmed that Donald Trump has won the election, meaning that he is the 47th president of the United States. This has been devastating news for countless people. Ever since the announcement, there has been a feeling of despair for many Goucher students. Because of what Trump is known to stand for, ideas that are rooted in bigotry, misogyny and hatred, many people have a sense of doom, especially since human rights are very much at risk. Trump’s connection with Project 2025 is one of the key reasons why his presidency is scary for many.

Aniya (Class of 2025) has expressed that they felt disappointed over the choices that they’re forced to settle for. “I’m not happy about my choices,” Aniya exclaimed. “I think that there’s no victory in this election, other than survival. That’s not something that we should be okay with.” Just like Aniya, many U.S. and Goucher residents have iffy opinions over the election. It’s upsetting and unfair that Americans have to rely on an unfair election system.

Now, more than ever, people need to be reminded that there is kindness in this world. It’s encouraged to find a sense of community where people express love for one another because acts of kindness and justice can combat bigotry. Ignorance, false information, and hatred spread rapidly as soon as Trump was elected, which makes it more important to show people who are most affected that they are valued and loved. It should be obvious that the people who are going to run the government will not show kindness to the citizens that they’re supposed to stand for, so we as citizens should be kind to each other in order to remind us that they’re is still hope for humanity. Acts of kindness, such as helping someone out, giving them compliments, or even saying hello will come a long way. If we can’t be nice and help one another in dark times, then our days will forever be dark.

There needs to be a reminder that there are safe spaces where you can reach out and discuss how the election makes one feel to get closer. Carter (2025) agrees that finding community will remind us that no one should feel alone throughout what’s to come. Carter says, “It’s important to focus on community and connecting yourself, rather than letting fear isolate you. That’s exactly what people who want to put you in a box want. Being able to go to a safe space will make you feel comfortable asking questions, being stressed, or just receiving support.” Empathy can go a long way by reminding us that America has communities where you can form conversations about your feelings and feel validation towards your worries. “Doomscrolling” can also make people develop feelings of dread for the future, so avoiding this is ideal. Having these conversations will make you realize that you’re not alone.

As for me: The fact that criminals are not allowed to vote, but can run for president is baffling! What does this say to our women and queer residents that our government loathes us for wanting to have comfortable lives? It’s upsetting that we are living in a country where people would rather have a felon to be the face of the country than a woman. It’s very difficult to have a sense of hope when there are many people who want to make you feel unsafe in “the land of the free”. We must not let corrupt politicians dictate on how we should express ourselves! While topics of abortion, trans and gay rights, and climate change are becoming controversial, we should not back down from having senses of logic and empathy for our community and the environment.

The best thing that we could do is help each other out and survive. As laws will be changing in different states, please make sure to check your resident state laws to ensure that you will live in a safe community. It’s upsetting to face the reality that this country would rather keep an old, ignorant, rich white man as president, rather than making history by having a woman of color as president.

By Kristen Wheeler ’25

Opinion: Student Senator Salaries Slashed

Published on November 18, 2024 by The Quindecim

On November 13th, the Student Government voted to stop paying its senators and lower the paid hours and wages of those on the executive board. This was due to, after looking at SGA spendings, the realization that by Fall 2025, the SGA would be out of money. This vote stopped that from happening, but it does not solve the problem. The SGA, if it continues paying its executive board members even at this reduced rate, will still run out of money by Fall 2026.

An obvious long term solution is to stop paying the entire student government and make all positions in the SGA volunteer positions, which is the model that most other student governments work with. Our SGA only became a paid position back in 2022, when excess funding from the unspent Student Activity Fees over the pandemic gave the SGA a large excess of money. This suggestion brought up at the General Assembly meeting was met with some pushback. Members of the Executive Board, who are still being paid, brought up that money is a large motivating factor in their work, that if they were not being paid they would not have the motivation, nor be able to give the time commitment, to do the many many things that they do.

I ask however, what about the countless members of club leadership who put equal hours into their organizations with no hope of compensation? Q reporters put countless hours into reporting, editing, and publishing a student newspaper every two weeks without any expectation of monetary compensation. Q Reporters often have to deal professionally with members of our administration and our editors help to uplift student voices on this campus. These reporters and editors, and many other club leaders all across campus, clearly set an example that you do not need to be paid to do high quality work. Why is the Student Government any different?

I am concerned, then, that the decision to start paying the Student Government has changed the attitude of the Student Government. I worry that the Student Government perhaps thinks too highly of their work compared to the equal amounts of unpaid work clubs put in. I also worry that the decision to start paying members of the student government has led to students joining not because they necessarily wish to improve and support the campus, but just to get paid. The other more likely reason would be that it looks good on their resume, but wouldn’t it look so much better on your resume if it were an unpaid position?

It is true that the executive board in Student Government puts in countless hours of hard work, however this does not need to be the case. Currently, there are 40 senators at the SGA’s disposal. If Executive Board members were more trusting and willing to work with their senators, and delegate more tasks to senators, this would alleviate the executive workload and give senators more things to do, as currently their only responsibilities are their one hour attendance at GA meetings and committee meetings, adding up to a whopping two hours of work each week. Senators want to do more things for their campus, but it seems there are not enough tasks for them to do. But how can it be the case that there is not enough work for Senators, but an excess of work for the Executive Board? Students are capable of doing some of the work of the Executive Board, their tasks are not so highly specialized to be impossible for other students to do, this is proven by the fact that students run the Student Government. The amount of hours the Exec Board works can be lessened if they learn to use their senators and delegate their workload.

By Jimy Kuhn, ’27

Vitality of Hope

Published on November 18, 2024 by The Quindecim

By Aniya Carrington

4:53 AM

My internal alarm glitched in the early morning on November sixth.

I opened my eyes to my dim ceiling, and the easy nothingness that comes from four in the morning. The second that my brain fully woke to feel my body laying in the sheets, I knew. I didn’t need to check. It was there: the soft lapping of dread at the shores of my body; the sorrowful intuition that you get from being Black in America.

Kamala Harris was not the president of the United States.

There were a million signs telling me that it would end up this way, but everything in me needed to believe otherwise. I was running on the charge that hope gave me, and with it gone, I was depleted.

In the moment, I turned over, not ready to face it. I wanted to be soothed by some otherworldly presence: my dreams, the pillow against my cheek, my late grandfather’s naive excitement from years ago at showing his granddaughter a vice president that looked similar enough to her in a position of power. When I voiced my concern about some of her beliefs, he looked at me, puzzled. In this rare moment of peaceful cross-generational communication about politics, I had forgotten one very important thing: due to everything thrown at us, mostly it’s expected that Black people will stand by other Black people, no matter what.

The attempt was made coming into this election, and unfortunately, it fell through.

The temptation inside of me to run from this new reality was strong. Humans relish in the path of least resistance. Squeezing our eyes shut and denying, or prolonging the denial, is how we believe we survive.

7:44 AM

I finally begin to process what my bones knew to be true. This election has been lost.

I open my phone and see people with faces like mine crying, mourning, frightened. In the dark of their eyes, mirrored are my thoughts. What about my students, my best-friends, my unborn child? What about the environment, our education, our rights? How can they all just be lost as quickly as that?

I see unidentifiable profiles jeering; pointing and laughing, inhumane down to the marrow. Your body, my choice, is a celebration, intent in the way it fills my cells with horror. There is blame being thrown around, clashing with the exit polls; over fifty percent of white women voted red, fifty percent of latino men voted red, all those third party votes lost. Everyone is talking about someone else. Everyone is throwing up a spotlight, creating a room full of flashing strobes that leave the people inside blinded.

In my room, tears are shed. The thickness of fear is hard to resist. It’s like an illness; a slow poison. I stop and start between sobs to get dressed and attend class. The professor promises a politics-free zone – whatever that means – an easy day – if such a thing exists – and yet, halfway through, I desperately need to leave, overwhelmed by the constriction that sitting still and breathing and doing nothing is.

There must be something to do, I think, placing one foot in front of the other, as I hurry away from the room of playing pretend. There has to be something else.

There isn’t. Grief resists all logical progression of time. You can ache for things that have not happened, for undead things, for the tangible and abstract alike. My thoughts are to my future, the future of the people I hold dear, my sisters, my mother, myself. I’m grieving the people I haven’t met, that I won’t meet, that I feel like I know because I understand they’re feeling this too. In a sickening twist, we have become kin under this distress.

12:21 PM

I join, then leave a seven minute call where my academic advisor tells me there is nothing she can do to help me.

I need things that she cannot give me – reassurance, peace, to travel back in time, for her to fix this – and she knows it. But her power bank is low too. I’m going to keep my camera off if that’s okay, she says. Still recovering from a rough batch of COVID. I don’t bother wondering how true it is. I’ll keep my camera off too, I respond, as if I’m graciously doing her a favor, pretending that it isn’t just for me.

Either way, it’s a mutual allowance of momentary vulnerability. I am still hiding, and it brings flimsy comfort to know that others are too. She can’t help me in the big ways, or the small ones. It’s impossible to see my transcript due to technical issues, and so the meeting is rendered useless quite quickly.

Sorry, she sighs, but there’s nothing I can do right now.

Her verbal admission of helplessness feels more honest than required. It takes energy to read into it, but as we left the call, I feel like our voices’ low tones hug one another goodbye.

There’s not much to do now.

Emails come: counseling is being offered, there are people who want to let you talk, there are people who want to talk to you. You are not alone loses its meaning with how often it’s said. A writing professor says that class is optional; Come if you need somewhere to be. If you can’t, there will be no penalties for you taking this time. It’s completely understandable.

The space is just as helpful as it is harmful. It makes me very aware of my racketing heart. Too emotional to be looked at square in the face. Too numb to round a corner steadily. Usually, writing balances me. Shows me the healthy medium to the stretching spectrum of my thoughts. It tells me where I should focus my energy. I approach it with the dedication that a teaphile brings to a sachet of herbs and collection of porcelain; I believe it to be healing down to my very core.

This is the first time in my life that I feel nothing when I think about the act of writing. It’s scarier than the grief. To sit with it is to hold hands with a nightmare.

6:32 PM

I am angry.

Raging and inconsolable. Things are being taken away from me and all I can do is sit and watch them be ripped out of my hands? This is all that I am reduced to? Weeping listlessness? A drone of despair? No. Something hot floods me then, thick and slow-moving. I eat with a vicious sort of hunger; the kind that is more about the violence of biting than any savoring of taste. I blindly work through an assignment, feeling hate at how useless it feels. All this talk about nothing, I seethe, All of this nothing.

I storm to work, where I tutor students in need, with a thunderstorm nipping my heels. I’m projecting hate into the space around me. If someone wants something from me, they’ll need to be brave and quick about it. There is a lot that I’m missing in the moment, but writing is one of the things that makes me into a kinder, wide-eyed individual. The lack of it, plus the new festering hole in my heart where it usually resides, is blackening with rot, turning me into something new and terrible.

I believe there is no solution to this growing snowball – I will tumble down this hill until I am crushed into nothing, flattened by my own nervous system – and then a student shows up.

She’s exhausted, clearly. Another mirror, I look at the exhausted blink of her eyes, the slow way she pulls out a notebook. The ache of today is a coat on her. She’s younger than me, and maybe it’s because I have sisters, because I’m thinking about their future well-being in between every breath I take today, but something about her breaks the fever of my anger.

There’s a test tomorrow, she explains, in such a way that I can hear her silent: if there even is a tomorrow, and I realize suddenly, starkly, that I want there to be a tomorrow. I want to soothe her. I want to fix something, even if it’s small.

I smile, and I pull out drill sheets. Let’s see what we can do.

As we work, we talk. We’re not dancing around the hanging thing over our heads, but turning our sides to it, letting it float in our peripheral. We acknowledge the reasons for our despair, yet continue to focus on the task ahead, and slowly, definition by definition, word by word, a rope is threaded. Our Black hands are holding onto one another’s, passing along this knowledge, stubbornly creating hope for success. Short-term, only until tomorrow, but still, success nonetheless. A future, despite.

Does this make sense? I ask, regarding the material, but also the world around us, and she laughs in a free way. No, she admits, eyes crinkling. Okay, non-judgmental, then we’ll work through it together.

We walk away from the table lighter, full of something necessary. Like we ate a meal, or hugged. As if there was a simple human wish there that we were able to fulfill for each other.

I’m terrified, she says in the warm night air. We’re lingering, understanding that to leave this moment is to return to the turbulence of everything. I nod. Me too. This is hard. Turning to the thing in the periphery. Giving it notice, but no power. I’ll come to the next session, she says. Will you be here?

And I say, yes, realizing the answer’s truth for the first time, something tight unfurling in my chest.

10:02 PM

I open a word document, and it doesn’t feel like pain lancing through me. I’ve been reading recently, and it lends itself to my vocabulary, my ordering of words. I find art in this creation. I find joy.

The first couple of things aren’t good. It’s just emotion coming through my fingers, I don’t have words for what I am saying yet. I want something that will comfort the girl that came to my tutoring session, the academic advisor unable to show her face, my sisters. I want something to comfort me. Something that will hold me when I crumble. Something that gives me direction.

Recently, I watched a webinar with Dr. Thema Bryant, a clinical psychologist that specializes in trauma research. It was called Cultivating Joy as a Sacred Practice of Resistance. She says that joy is a reserve that you can pull from in times of heaviness. Selecting forces of joy, of strength, of resilience, surrounding yourself with them, and letting them fuel you are all ways of pushing back against the world’s insistence that you are better off miserable.

They want you dead, so surviving, and even better than that, doing so joyously, is how you fight.

Currently, my joy is creating. Whether that’s writing or making pencil drawings on notebook paper. It doesn’t matter. It feeds me, and in a world that’s intending to starve me, it’s deeply necessary. Find your joy, and center your life around it. Make it your medicine.

In any case, I believe that we need to create. We need to create with intention; for someone, for joy, for peace. We need to create intently; sit down and do it, make space to do it, carve out time for it. We need to make creating a routine; practice ritualistically building something with your mind and familiarize yourself with the restorative gift it brings.

If creation involving thought isn’t for you, then create a space. Give yourself a room to go to, fill it with things that bring you peace, settle there and recharge before you come back out. Involve people: look at who is in your life, who you wish was there more often, who gives you something that can’t be received from anything else, and cherish them. Invite them in further. Let yourself have community. Be enriched by them. And while you’re doing so, honor the places that accept you. Breathe life into the spaces that revive us. Our libraries, our classrooms, our affinity spaces. These need to be churches to us. They should be places where people go in order to inhale safety. Places where people can let their hard-locked muscles loosen; let their bones unlatch to rest, fill themselves back up with hope.

That interaction at that singular tutoring session – the sustained belief in one small good – gave me what I needed the entire day. It was vital, just as hope always is. It has always existed, even in the worst of times, and it will always exist if we make space for it.

Opinion: Why I Voted for Kamala Harris—A Candidate With Us In Mind

Published on November 4, 2024 by The Quindecim

Photo Credit: Felix Knight

Voting in this election is not just a civic duty reserved for ultra-plugged in political participants like me. Voting isn’t just about demonstrating that you follow and care about the political world. Voting—especially in this election—is about demonstrating that you care for your community. If you care about women, transgender individuals, Black people, immigrants, high prices, climate change, gun control, health care, affording a home or an education—if you care about anyone at all who lives in this great nation, you cannot sit this election out. This Presidential election is a choice between someone who cares about you, fundamentally, and someone who doesn’t.

I voted for Kamala Harris, because she has always cared about the people. She became a prosecutor because she couldn’t stomach the thought of her friend’s stepfather getting away with child sexual abuse. She ran for California attorney general and took on domestic violence and gun violence, while enacting programs to ensure that nonviolent offenders could reintegrate in society. She fought against the banks for their predatory loan policies, and won—giving that money back to the community. Her career in the Senate focused on lifting up the working class and bringing down costs. Her entire career has been about fighting for people who need someone in their corner, and right now, all of America needs a President like Harris in their corner.

Donald Trump has only ever looked out for himself. This has been common knowledge since way before he ever entered the political arena. He is a man found liable for rape, and convicted in a court of law for more than thirty counts of white collar fraud. He isn’t like you and me, and he doesn’t care about you or me. Trump is a person who isn’t running because he wants to change America for the better, but because he realized that winning this election is the only way to keep himself out of jail. He is repugnant—the list of vile things he has said about women and non-white people is near-endless, and he incited violence against our elected representatives. He incited a violent mob at the Capitol, and made congresspeople fear for their lives, people we voted for hiding under desks or in broom closets.

When Trump was told his supporters were storming the Capitol and wanted to kill his own Vice President, he said “So what?” He doesn’t consider anyone who disagrees with him to be worthy of simple liberties like living another day. He wants to deport legal immigrants and burn our economy to the ground. His pick for Vice President thinks women are subhuman, and the people he surrounds himself with want to create a registry of pregnant people to ensure abortion is punished.

Jill Stein is running a bad-faith campaign. She wants your vote because she benefits from the divisiveness and chaos another Trump term would bring. She doesn’t care about you, or the issues you care about. She doesn’t care about democracy. Stein thinks the war in Gaza can be solved with one phone call. She wants to bypass Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution to institute her own agenda. Her platform—if by some miracle did pass—would cost Americans even more than Trump; she doesn’t actually care about the working class. I encourage you to look at Stein’s website, and really think about what she wants to do. Because she doesn’t actually want to do anything; she exists just to draw the Democratic vote and mess around every four years. Jill Stein is one of the only people in politics less qualified to be President than Trump; she is a medical doctor who has never once won an election.

I understand that we are all frustrated with politics in America. We live in truly unprecedented times–everything seems to be going wrong, and we are all paying the price. Still, I implore you not to waste your vote on a candidate who does not care about you. Goucher is a vibrant and diverse community, known for its population of women and queer folks. It is our obligation to ourselves and our peers to stand up for freedom and personal liberties. A Trump victory would work endlessly to abolish healthcare for women and transgender people, as well as gut the Affordable Care Act, thereby removing thousands of people from their insurance coverage. A Trump victory would be catastrophic for all of us, and I am pleading with you to consider the realities of people who might be less fortunate than you when you cast your ballot.

Maryland has reproductive freedom on the ballot—Question 1 would enshrine it in our state constitution. But all of that work is meaningless if Trump wins and institutes a national abortion ban. Maryland might be a blue state, but no state in this country will be safe from Trump’s fascist agenda. It is crucial that we pass Question 1, but it’s even more important that we have a President who cares.

I love America, and I love freedom. Unfortunately, the reality is that both are under the threat of a man who would sleep well at night knowing he destroyed both. This is the most important election of our lifetimes. We must turn the page on Donald Trump, and his selfish, pseudo-leadership.

Election day is Tuesday, November 5th. Maryland has same day voter registration. It is not too late to make your voice heard! If you are from out of state, you can register with your Goucher address, and the nearest polling place will be at Towson University.

Love,

Felix

By Felix Knight, ‘27