Football head coach Frank Tavani announced on Wednesday that his 40-year coaching career has ended. The college stated in a press release on Wednesday that Tavani announced his retirement after 30 years with Lafayette and 17 seasons as head coach. His contract expired at the end of this season and was not renewed. “It’s been an honor and privilege […]
Rachel Robertson: Have you had a good Laf-Lehigh weekend so far? Joe Maddon: We flew in yesterday, got into Philly. Then drove to Hazleton, saw my mom and took her out dinner. Then we drove back down here last night, and we’re doing all this now and it’s great. And the weather being as it […]
On Thursday night, Dr. Mae C. Jemison, the first African American woman to go into space, invited Lafayette to go on a “journey across space and time” with her. Jemison was this year’s Judith A. Resnik Lecture series speaker, a series sponsored by the John and Muriel Landis Fund and the Farber Fund. Jemison was trained […]
The Leopards (2-8) faced off against the Patriot League Champion Lehigh Mountain Hawks (8-2) and the result was what many expected. In what is the most played rivalry in college sports, more than 12,000 people were in attendance at Fisher Field for “Rivalry 152.” After starting the game with a 50-yard drive, junior running back […]
The number of students seeking assistance from school counselors has spiked this past year both at Lafayette and at colleges across the nation. In the past three months alone, nearly 50 percent more Lafayette students sought out counseling or consultation than over the same time period last year. Director of Counseling Services Dr. Karen Forbes noted that the increase […]
Roughly 200 students walked out from their classes on Wednesday in the latest of students’ demonstrations in reaction to the presidential election last week. Last Friday, those living on Lafayette’s campus woke up to roughly 300 “Not My President” posters distributed across campus, and a silent protest took place later that day. A few Lafayette community […]
A professor who teaches at Lafayette College and Lehigh University has been accused of discriminatory comments at both colleges. Students have accused economics professor Daniel Bayak of making racist and misogynistic comments in class. Lehigh University has opened an investigation into his teaching practices, and President Alison Byerly has confirmed Lafayette has, as well. “It was brought to […]
In China, lawyers are often detained and tortured for standing up for human rights, professor Teng Biao told a crowd of Lafayette students on Monday. As a human rights lawyer himself, Biao was banned from teaching in China, kidnapped and held prisoner by the Chinese government, which ultimately led him to flee the country. Biao’s goal […]
Bilal Akbar ’18, the student government president-elect for the next calendar year, and vice president-elect Shreya Nebhwani ’19 want to give their organization more visibility on campus. “A very small proportion of the student body has an idea of what student government does,” Akbar said. Akbar plans on having monthly open meetings in which the student body can voice their […]
From Midnight Breakfast to the game itself, Rivalry Week is packed with traditions — but there is always room for more excitement. For the first time this year, a community concert will be held Friday evening on the lawn outside of the Oechsle Center for Global Education. The concert will feature the B Street Band […]
Anthony Davis. That’s the response you would get if you asked someone to name anybody on the New Orleans Pelicans roster. I doubt they’d be able to get anyone else’s name. Possibly Jrue Holiday, because he’s a former all-star, but he’s also been sidelined with a multitude of injuries over the past couple of seasons, including […]
A.J. Traub: What has changed about the swim team during your tenure here? Sam Haines: I’d say that we’ve become more serious, really, just over the two years that I’ve been here. The whole atmosphere of the team, everybody is always ready to work hard at practices. We’ve had a lot of success, both individually […]
Loneliness, love and death dominated the performances of “The Masque of Edgar Allan Poe” at the Williams Center for the Arts last week. The opera, which was based partially on Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story “The Masque of the Red Death,” was paired with a rather sinister interpretation of the Brother Grimm’s “The Juniper Tree.” In […]
151 – How many games Lafayette and Lehigh have played before the 152nd game this Saturday. 78 – Victories by the Leopards in those games. 10 – Games won in a row by Lafayette from 1919-1928, the longest winning streak of The Rivalry. 1 – The current win streak held by the Mountain Hawks. 1884 […]
