Author: Hannah Epstein
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Private Investigators, Confidential Meetings, and a “Betrayal of Trust”: Inside Bryn Mawr’s Probe Into Pro-Palestinian Protests
By Hannah Epstein & Rana Rastegari The email Willa Hollinger received from Tomiko Jenkins, the dean of Bryn Mawr’s undergraduate college, was as vague as it was alarming. “I am reaching out to request a brief, confidential meeting regarding an important college matter,” it read. “Given the sensitive nature of this matter, we ask that…
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Bryn Mawr’s New Protest Guidelines Cause Unease Among Faculty and Students
By Hannah Epstein & Jessica Schott-Rosenfield Bryn Mawr College administration has released a new set of guidelines regarding student protest on campus, limiting students’ ability to use bullhorns or occupy certain campus spaces during protests, and encouraging students to schedule demonstrations through the college’s facilities platform. The newly released policies, titled “Guidelines in Support of Protests and…
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For America’s Congolese Diaspora, Peace Deals Offer Little Comfort
This article originally appeared in The Nation. For the full piece, go to the Nation’s webpage: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/congo-diaspora-peace-deals-trump-minerals/. Below is a short clip from the full piece. Nils Kinuani was sitting in his elementary school classroom in Bukavu, a city in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when the rebel commander chiefs entered the room.…
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Howard Lutnick, HC ’83, Plays Leading Role in Trump’s Tariff Overhaul
This breaking news piece was first published in the Bi-College Newspaper on April 3rd Yesterday afternoon, President Donald Trump announced an overwhelming roll-out of new tariffs, some placed on key U.S. trading partners, in what he claimed was a “liberation day” for the United States. At a speech at the White House’s Rose Garden, Trump said that…
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Experimental Lovers
This story was never published anywhere (it boasts over 20 rejections from various literary magazines!), but it is still a personal favorite of mine and I decided to share it here. “I had to get up from my seat and use the bathroom since there was just like, streams of blood dripping down my leg.”…
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A secret garden grows in Brooklyn
A shortened version of this article was published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2024/07/11/a-secret-garden-grows-in-brooklyn/) Below is the full piece I wrote. COBBLE HILL — Walking through the garden together, Julia Lichtblau is able to identify every plant with its traditional Latin terminology; euonymus fortune, Heuchera, phlox paniculata, hosta plantaginea. As we were talking, passersby frequently stopped…
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Madeleine
Published on May 9, 2023 by ignatianlitmag I first properly met Madeleine at a birthday party in Teresa’s backyard back in the sixth grade. Before that, we had only seen each other in passing when our teachers would have us leave the school building in neat lines for recess. When I saw her back then, before I…
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Baltimore mayor appoints director of LGBTQ affairs office
This article was originally published in The Baltimore Sun. For the full piece, go to the Sun’s website: https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/06/25/melanie-bryant-lgbtq-office/. Below is a short clip. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott appointed Melanie Bryant as the director of the Mayor’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs, according to a Wednesday news release. The interim director, Alexis Blackmon, will now serve…
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Baltimore’s State Center to become hub of transit, housing, retail, officials say
This article was originally published in The Baltimore Sun. For the full article, go to the Sun’s website: https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/06/26/state-center-plan/. Below is a short clip from the full piece. A development project intended to revamp Baltimore’s 28-acre State Center into a residential and retail hub is in the works, state officials said Thursday. Alongside the unveiling…
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