After several months of neighborhood pushback, the Easton City Council has approved Lafayette’s plans to build new dormitories on McCartney Street. The council voted four to two in favor of the zoning amendments needed for the plans. The college asked the city council to allow it to build 55-foot “mixed use” dormitories on McCartney Street. A diner and […]
“I’m a rough, tough girl, but it didn’t matter the day after my 22nd birthday that I was tough enough, because when he slipped into my bed I was numb,” Stephanie Nickerson ‘17 said as she began to share her story for the first time to a crowd on the quad Wednesday evening. Nickerson is […]
Lafayette football finished its spring season with an intra-squad scrimmage, with newly named head coach John Garrett making the calls for both teams. The game pitted “Lafayette” against the “Leopards,” as the game had implications for next season’s roster. It featured interceptions, long touchdown drives and a late comeback to make the game exciting. The game began […]
Nearly 600 students responded to a survey about sexual assault at the start of the semester. One in four of them reported unwanted sexual contact. Four out of five of those students reported that the contact was from a fellow student. That places Lafayette above an average from 55 other schools in the country. For these schools, the […]
Roughly four weeks after its formation, the Ad Hoc Committee on Ensuring Inclusive Dialogue released their final report to the entire campus community. In it, the committee calls for the college to remedy the allegedly “intellectually homogeneous” discourse on campus, dominated by leftist ideology. Despite the charges of leaning conservative, committee chair Michael Latorre ’18 said that the committee has […]
April 21 would have been Joey Towers’ 21st birthday. To celebrate his life, the brothers of Lafayette’s Delta Upsilon created the first annual Joey Day to raise money for suicide awareness. Thirty-five to 45 DU brothers, five DU alumni and 10 non-fraternity members who were close with Towers alternated shifts to bike for nine hours straight. They rode stationary […]
For decades the Democratic party has been known as the home of those who label themselves as left-leaning, liberal or progressive, yet I am increasingly unable to agree with that sentiment. For evidence of this argument I turn to the recent events of the Syrian bombings of the past month, and the ongoing strife between […]
The Sun Also Rises. “Antisemitic bullfight-lover dines, travels, gets friend-zoned.”
“Even the grocery stores in New York stay open later than the bars in Easton.” Comedian and Saturday Night Live Weekend Update host and writer Colin Jost decided to pick on Lafayette in his opening on Wednesday. Jost did his research on Lafayette, starting with jokes about “what’s happening” on campus, including jokes about the hot […]
A large group of people sporting t-shirts with rainbow leopards on the front gathered in front of Hogg Hall last Friday for the third biennial Equality Rally. Quest, the college’s student organization for gender and sexuality issues, organizes and hosts these rallies to foster support for members and allies of the LGBTQ+ community. Sarah Mudrick ‘18 […]
Although saying goodbye to the the Dog House service dogs this past Monday was difficult, the members of the LLC had an exciting year t0 look back on with their pups. The dogs’ training takes two years, so they’ll be returning next semester after doing various prison training programs across the state. Mike Astor ’17 […]
After struggling to the finish line in the regular season, the men’s tennis team can hang their heads high with a Patriot League Tournament victory in the first round over Holy Cross. That wasn’t the case for the women, however, with their regular season ending in a loss to The College of New Jersey. The […]
“Fate of the Furious” is more of the same – in the best way. “Fate of the Furious” (F8) stars Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodrigues and many others from the cast of the first three films. While the films have sadly lost leading actor Paul Walker, “Fate of the Furious” features new-comers Scott Eastwood and Charlize Theron. […]
Journalist Michael Finkel’s book “The Stranger in the Woods” is subtitled “The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit,” which I expected to be a bit of hyperbole. People unplug for days and even weeks, but who would willingly live alone in the dense Maine woods for more than 20 years, speaking only once to say […]
