By Mieke H. Bomann
This article originally appeared in the spring 2007 Quarterly.
From her bedroom window in MacGregor Hall, Senia Bachir-Abderahman ’10 has a beautiful view of Upper Lake and the forest that surrounds it. The college’s rural quality was enticing to this North African for whom woods and lakes had been, for the most part, the stuff of dreams.
The desert landscape of southwest Algeria where Senia grew up is not only treeless and arid but nearly devoid of sand. The bare rock and small-stone terrain is inhospitable to all but the most hardened of life forms. Nevertheless, some 200,000 refugees from neighboring Western Sahara have subsisted there since the mid-1970s. Senia’s family was among them. (More)
By Meg Massey ’08
This article originally appeared in the spring 2007 Quarterly.
Jade McCarthy ’02 knew that she was making an impact her first week on the job. While interviewing Philadelphia Eagles fans after the team’s loss to Seattle, a man driving by rolled down his window and yelled, “Finally—a female doing sports in Philadelphia!”
It was about time, indeed. Last year, Jade became the first female sports reporter in the history of Philadelphia’s major television networks when she joined the sports team at NBC-10. The city had had female sports writers and cable sports news anchors but never a woman sports reporter on a local network.
“When I was interviewing, they asked, ‘Do you think you can handle going into the locker room or club house and asking the tough questions? Can you handle the light that will be shone upon you as the first woman in this city to do this?’” Incredulous, she guaranteed her abilities and hasn’t looked back. (More)
From her bedroom window in MacGregor Hall, Senia Bachir-Abderahman ’10 has a beautiful view of Upper Lake and the forest that surrounds it. The college’s rural quality was enticing to this North African for whom woods and lakes had been, for the most part, the stuff of dreams.
