Pantoum
There are four miniatures on the butterfly dresser The fairy sized bottle of watermelon flavored vodka is Emptied and washed out Filled with water and a flower picked from the side of the road The fairy sized bottle of watermelon…
Brother
We used to play in the woods behind our grandparents’ house, sticking our hands out to brush against the mossy trees, finding dead birds, making makeshift shelters — so proud of our accumulations of sticks and leaves. We used to…
Winter Sports Begin, Communications Head Hired
Winter Sports Goucher’s winter sports teams (men’s and women’s basketball, swimming and indoor track and field) have been practicing for a while now, but their competition seasons are just getting started. Swimming The Women’s swim team won two out of…
What They Should Teach Us in High School
You often find many students in high school and college saying “When are we going to use this stuff in real life?”. The Pythagorean theorem is not going to help with me in life and I cannot name a time…
Birth Control in Puerto Rico: The Pill’s Dark History
Although the pill allows American women to feel more in control of their body, many do not realize the dark history behind this method of birth control. In 1956, a researcher from Massachusetts named Gregory Pincus conducted the first experiment…
When Friends are Abroad
Studying abroad, on either and ICA or a semester, is a quintessential part of the Goucher experience, but what happens when all your friends are studying abroad for a semester and you’re not? This happened to me this semester, and…
Tasmania: Sunsets, Stars, and Sand
Never in my wildest dreams could I have imaged touching the stars or seeing the most vibrant pink sunset reflected against the sea. Nor did I imagine participating in a failed sunset-chasing trip up an unmarked hillside, only to reverse…
The Indictments: A Briefing
On Monday October 30th, Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia made its first indictments public. Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos were all indicted. These indictments were filed five months into the investigation, which began…
Reading Across the Disciplines
I have a horrible habit of buying textbook rentals at the end of the semester. Every semester, I try to figure out which books I’ll want in the future, then inevitably miss three or four that I decide I need…
The SPX Haul Part 3
A couple of issues ago, I wrote about some of the super cool comics and artists I met at SPX back in September. Well, here I return, but this time I’m going to do something a little different. Instead of…
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