While the college keeps a list of alumni who ask questions about free speech on campus, Lafayette is aiming to achieve more viewpoint diversity in the thoughts presented on campus. Its latest effort is securing a debate between former President of Mexico Vicente Fox and former leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) Nigel […]
Picture this: you’re sitting in your morning class in Pardee Hall, when all of a sudden some students’ phones go off. It’s an alert from Public Safety. There’s an active shooter on campus. Would you know what to do next? Plans of action for active shooter situations have because increasingly common as school shootings continue […]
Connor Burwell ’19 was elected president of Lafayette College Student Government for the 2018-2019 academic year last week, winning 46 percent of the vote of 1088 votes total. Burwell will focus his presidency on implementing the new structure of student government and addressing concerns of students expressed in a recent student government survey from last […]
“The Souls of Black Folks”(1903), by W. E. B. Du Bois has helped Dean of Equity and Inclusion Christopher Hunt make his experience as a black man feel less isolating. Having read “The Souls of Black Folks” during his undergraduate career, Dean Hunt said that it showed him “what was potentially ahead of me.” “W. E. […]
The men’s basketball team closed their 2017-2018 season in the quarterfinals of the Patriot League Tournament, where they fell to Colgate 76-54. Despite having swept Colgate in regular-season play, the Leopards could not pull together a strong offensive force. After a first round win over American (93-86) at home on Feb. 27, the seventh-seed Leopards traveled […]
“Santa Clarita Diet” is a sitcom with a bite–think “Pleasantville (1998)”–about a town that appears to be a utopia, but soon turns out to be much darker. The Netflix show follows the lives of two suburban realtors, Sheila (Drew Barrymore) and Joel (Timothy Olyphant) in Santa Clarita, California. Their lives change dramatically when Sheila dies […]
Women’s basketball entered the Patriot League Tournament as the #8 seed, earning a home game in the first round against #9 Boston. Sophomore guard Sarah Agnello and freshman guard Olivia Martino caught fire, dropping 41 points combined in a 66-61 win. The victory sent them to #1-seed American, a team that beat the Leopards twice this […]
Lafayette’s men’s and women’s rugby teams competed in their first tournament of the year on Saturday, March 3. Each team came away from the tournament with one victory out of three matches and no major injuries, but there is something to be said for the performances of each team. “For most people on the team, […]
Yesterday was International Women’s Day, and protests and marches to show solidarity among women occurred around the world. At Lafayette, achieving diversity has been a struggle for women and other minorities. Breaking the barriers meant taking the heat, according to the Oral History Project (OHP) sponsored by the college. Though Lafayette has nearly the same […]
The Lafayette fencing team hosted the MAFCA Championships on March 4 in Kirby Sports Center, and showed vast improvement compared to last year’s results at the event. The saber squad, led by senior Alex Gorloff at A strip, finished fourth as a whole. They had the best record of any Lafayette squad. Lafayette’s fencing foil […]
This week, the Lafayette takes a timeout with junior lacrosse goalkeeper Jonathan Anastos, who made 13 saves in the loss against Army West Point. Morgan Maves: How has your season as a team been going thus far? What’s working and what isn’t? Jonathan Anastos: This year had an interesting beginning. There have been games where […]
Lafayette women’s and men’s track and field teams competed at Boston University in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) and Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) championships, respectively. Athletes had to qualify in order to participate in the events, and the Leopards who made the trip had an impressive overall showing. The women’s […]
Following up the success of film producer and director Alex Garland’s “Ex Machina” (2015), the novelist and screenwriter Garland makes “Annihilation” into a challenging, confusing and at times haunting sci-fi piece. “Annihilation” is visually stunning. The creative team altogether is excellent at providing striking imagery, to evoke both wonder and horror. “Annihilation” has set pieces […]
Roger Ruggles, civil and environmental engineering professor and current member of Easton’s City Council, is starting his campaign for the the soon-to be vacant seat in Pennsylvania’s Seventh Congressional District, running in the primary election as a Democrat. Recently, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, as a result of a gerrymandering case, redistricted this area of the […]
