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Community Care and Resources in Response to Israel-Gaza

At a time of conflict and divide, the College is working to bring students, faculty, and staff together to support one another and engage these important issues through peaceful and constructive dialogue.

Faculty

COOL CLASSES: “Lithography – Materials and Techniques”

In Hee Sook Kim’s class, students explore the foundation of offset printing, the standard before the dawn of digital printing.

Fall Fun with Friends

On a beautiful fall weekend, more than 700 friends and family members flocked to Haverford.

COOL CLASSES: “You Are What You Eat? Eating and Identity”

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This writing seminar considers the way food practices and the discourses that surround them can unite families, consolidate ethnic identity, reinforce class boundaries, and even express gender.
Packed House Greets Alice Notley

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Campus, Faculty

The Los Angeles Times Book Award-winning poet gave a well-attended reading in Magill Library.
Beijing Opera Enchants, Students and Faculty Join In

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Arts, Students

Performer and educator Hongyong Jia shares the historical and well-loved Chinese tradition with the Haverford community.
What’s Next? Students, Faculty, and Guests Make Sense of the Election

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Campus

Two events, one featuring a panel conversation with professors from the Political Science Department, and the other featuring a presentation by Amelia Kegan of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, gave community members a chance to formulate responses to this year’s election results.
Arboretum Honors WWI Veterans

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Campus

On Veteran’s Day, in honor of the centennial of “The Great War,” a Swamp White Oak was planted on College Road by members of Uncommon Individual’s Saving Hallowed Ground program.
Dorm Residents "Do It In The Dark" To Promote Sustainable Habits

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Students, Campus

During the annual energy-saving competition, sponsored by the Committee for Environmental Responsibility, the campus saved a whopping 4,885 kWh overall, more than twice last year's total.
Questioning Financial Paradigms And Building Up Communities

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Faculty, Students

At a “Park Street Finance” event, part of the Impact Investing Speaker Series, panelists discussed role of financial operations in community building.
CLUB LIFE: Off Campus And Out of Doors

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HavOC, the student-run outdoors club, aims to make activities like hiking, rock-climbing, backpacking accessible for all members of the Haverford community, regardless of experience level.
Off Campus And Out of Doors

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Campus, Students

HavOC, the student-run outdoors club, aims to make activities like hiking, rock-climbing, backpacking accessible for all members of the Haverford community, regardless of experience level.
Updates for Alumni & Parents

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Alumni

Make the most of your online shopping and become an alumni admission volunteer.
A Hawk’s-Eye View of Raptor Foraging

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Faculty, Science

Professor of Physics Suzanne Amador Kane used a headcam on a goshawk to learn how it searches for its prey.
Back Singing the Blues

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Alumni, Students

The College’s oldest all-women a cappella group, the Oxford Blues, celebrated its 31st anniversary with a campus concert featuring 20 alumnae from classes going back to 1991.
From President Kim Benston

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Campus

Thoughts on our responses to the election.
COOL CLASSES: “Gender Dissidence in Hispanic Writing”

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Faculty

This year, Israel Burshatin’s comparative literature course on the dissenting voices of gender and sexuality in Spain and Spanish America is buoyed by a related exhibition in Magill Library around the Inquisition trial of a F-to-M trans surgeon born into slavery.
With A Frisbee and A Costume: Haverween 2016

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Students

Haverford’s two ultimate teams co-hosted the 14th annual tournament, welcoming teams from the Philly area and beyond for a weekend of costumed competition and fun.