Back to School
Angela Chan ’98, now a teacher at John H. Taggart Elementary School, brought 20 of her South Philly third-graders to campus to visit the Haverfarm.
Remembering Vietnam on Veteran’s Day
“The Vietnam War in Poetry: Ancient History or Prescient Harbinger?” a poetry reading by six American poets, who participated in the Vietnam War, was organized by President Daniel H. Weiss on November 11, Veteran’s Day. Their reading was part of a two-day conference, which included a panel discussion the next day.
COOL CLASSES: “Theory and Practice of Exhibitions: Objects, Images, Texts, Events”
A fine arts course that gives students the analytic tools necessary to understand how exhibitions work and practical experience making arguments with objects, images, texts, and events.
An Evening with Laverne Cox
There was a packed house for trans activist and actress Laverne Cox’s on-campus speech, which was organized by the Students’ Council Speakers Committee,and Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA), on Friday night in Marshall Auditorium.
COOL CLASSES: “Cruising Home: Queer Kinship in Theory and Practice”
An English course that asks what is at stake for queer people in their persistent desires to build home, community, and social movements.
Fords Look at Careers in Business
Alumni business professionals connected with current students at the “Fords in Business Conference” organized by the Center for Career and Professional Advising, and the Department of Economics.
COOL CLASSES: “Against Death: Opposing Capital Punishment in American Literature”
An English course examining the cultural history of American responses to the death penalty through novels, poems, plays, essays, photographs, songs, cartoons, and films
Cool Classes
The Club Life @ Haverford
A series exploring the many varied student clubs on campus.
What They Learned
A series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates.
Where They’re Headed
A blog series detailing the post-Haverford plans of our recent graduates.