Author name: Tara de Souza

The Goucher Poll asked Maryland citizens for their opinions toward marijuana, the minimum wage, sick leave, and the addition of gender identity to statewide anti-discrimination laws. Highlights of the results regarding these pressing issues in the state are detailed below. Marijuana Marylanders’ opinions toward legalizing marijuana remains basically unchanged since the October 2013 Goucher Poll; […]

Maryse Fauvel, a professor of French studies at the College of William & Mary, will present the talk “Museums as Ways of Forgetting: A Parisian Case Study” on Thursday, April 3, at 7 p.m. in Buchner Hall of Goucher College’s Alumnae/i House. This interdisciplinary talk, which will be presented in English, will look at various

Goucher College President Sanford J. Ungar was honored for his service to higher education with commendations from both the Maryland State Senate and the House of Delegates. On March 6, Ungar was presented with resolutions in front of the entire General Assembly on the floors of both houses of the state legislature in Annapolis. House

In Kaleidoscope, a new art exhibit at Goucher College, Baltimore area artists are presenting a variety of pieces for show and sale. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, is running now through mid-April in the Lenrow Gallery on the fourth floor of Goucher’s Athenaeum. Artists’ receptions will be held Thursday, April 3,

In March 1971, Betty Medsger, then a reporter at The Washington Post, received from anonymous sources copies of files stolen from the FBI office in Media, PA, days before. She was the first journalist to publish the story, which revealed FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had—for nearly a half-century—distorted the mission of the most powerful

Eddie Palmieri has been at the forefront of jazz and Latin genres for five decades. The nine-time Grammy Award-winner and 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master will perform with his Latin jazz septet in Goucher College’s Kraushaar Auditorium on Sunday, March 9, at 7 p.m. This event is open to the public, but

Dagmar Herzog, a professor of history at the Graduate Center of City University of New York, will present the talk “Post-Holocaust Anti-Semitism and the ‘Invention-Discovery’ of PTSD” on Monday, April 7, at 4:30 p.m. in the Batza Room of Goucher College’s Athenaeum. In this presentation, Herzog will discuss the emotionally charged conflicts among medical professionals

John C. “Chris” Inglis retired from his role as deputy director of the National Security Agency on January 10, 2014. He served the United States’ biggest intelligence agency during one of its most tumultuous moments. Inglis will discuss NSA operations past, present, and future during “Security and Privacy: Values in Conflict,” Goucher College’s Spring 2014