The Bradford

Pounding and pouring (0)

2/08/10 •

A bird’s eye view of the construction site.
Rebecca Goldberg ‘12
Assistant Sports Editor
Vibrating steel piles, pouring foundation and rockhammering bedrock are just a few of the most recent activities occurring at the construction site.
Turner construction just finished inserting the remaining 251 steel piles into the ground.
The steel piles are slid into the ground until they [...]

Bridging the gap (0)

2/08/10 •

Rebecca Goldberg ‘12
Assistant Sports Editor
For girls of color a unique opportunity arose five years ago. With the support of Wellesley College students, these girls have the opportunity to participate in the Bridge the Gap Program, coordinated by Wendy West ’09, now a senior at Wellesley College.
Wellesley College students who wanted to give back to their [...]

The real meaning of “Avatar” (0)

2/08/10 •

James Cameron’s Avatar was no doubt a visual treat, but does this 400 million dollar movie mark the downfall of good cinema?
This is not to say Avatar did not pull certain moral strings. The plot, meant to parallel the eradication of American Indians by settlers moving west, certainly did convey the ignorance [...]

Haiti needs the world (0)

2/08/10 •

Naomi Ali ’12
News Editor


On January 12, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck less than 10 miles from the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
Twelve aftershocks, all of which measured a magnitude greater than 5.0, stuck close to the city, adding further to the massive structural damage. With the death toll predicted at 200,000 people, the earthquake also [...]