Robert Diggs

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House: Ware College House (New College House in the Fall); Hometown: Brooklyn, NY; Major: Government, Unofficial History Minor; Interests: Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Blackberry, 007, Black Student Union, Pasta, Southern Comfort Food, New York City (especially the pizza).
Robert Diggs

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Did You Know: Public Safety

What do you think of when you hear Public Safety, or any of its derivatives like PSafe or DPS? Security guards? Breaking up parties? Parking tickets? Room lockouts? Well those thoughts may not be wrong, but those things are a fraction of what our Public Safety officers do on a daily basis. They are more [...]

Sprummallter…or it’s the Most Confusing Time of the Year.

Over Halloween weekend, like most of the Northeast, we here at Franklin and Marshall experienced a snowstorm. Area trees, a great number of which still had most of their foliage, became weeping willows under the additional weight of the early snow. This past Monday the temperature got as high as 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Students expecting cooler [...]

A Lancastrian Rhapsody…in Blue

An hour or so prior to the inauguration ceremony for President Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph. D., I was milling around the platform on Manning Alumni Green in search of Debbie Martin ’72, the Director of Special Events and Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trustees. Over Family, Homecoming and Inauguration Weekend, I served as a [...]

The Necessity of Multitasking

If there is one thing that every college student will learn, it is that the ability to multitask is something that you must develop, unless you enjoy falling behind. What does multitasking mean? Well on the general level it means being able to balance your academic calendar with your social calendar. On a more specific [...]

Welcome Back Fummers!

The culinary love of my F&M life, Pandini’s, re-opened today so I had to stop by and get my customary penne Dip Deal (an explanation of which is in the fourth paragraph of this previous post) with mix sauce. My cook was the always bubbly Angie and we got into a conversation about our summers and [...]