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Tuesday night was the first in a series of lectures that are part of the Department of Economics’ newly created microfinance program. Sashi Selvandran of Mennonite Economic Development Associates, discussed her work helping to create small business solutions to global poverty.

The alumnus and assistant professor of history at the College of William and Mary came back to campus to give a talk, as part of the Young Alumni Series, about Sir Walter Raleigh’s Historie of the World.

The alumnus and assistant professor of history at the College of William and Mary came back to campus to give a talk, as part of the Young Alumni Series, about Sir Walter Raleigh’s Historie of the World.

When Columbia University PhD candidate (and project coordinator of the Malcolm X Project) Zahir Ali came to campus to talk about the intersection of hip-hop and Islam, he didn’t just come to lecture. Last Thursday Chase Auditorium was full of the sights and sounds of hip-hop itself, making the topic come alive.

The “under 19” lacrosse team from the Iroquois Lacrosse Program came to campus as part of a Weekend of Native American Culture and Spirit, including a match against the College’s own men’s lacrosse team.

Poet, teacher and former Haverford English major Iain Haley Pollock ’00 returned to campus for a reading from his Cave Canem Poetry Prize-winning debut collection, Spit Back a Boy.