A man in Anchorage, Alaska, has been charged with perpetrating last May’s bomb threat, President Alison Byerly announced in an email this afternoon at 3:18 p.m. No more details were given regarding the man’s identity or motives. The May 5 threat was emailed to the college and posted online and on social media, but was […]
Month: December 2018
A historic legacy: archivist Diane Shaw retires after three decades of growing college’s collections
For 33 years, Diane Shaw has served as a link between Lafayette and its history. Shaw, Director for Special Collections and College Archives, recently announced she will retire after the Fall 2018 semester. She will still be on campus during the spring semester “tying up loose ends” and finishing up a few projects, Shaw said. […]
Construction continues on Rockwell Integrated Sciences Center
The Rockwell Integrated Science Center, totaling $75 million and over 100,000 square feet, is Lafayette’s “largest” project, Vice President of Finance and Administration Roger Demareski said. Demareski added that the construction is going according to schedule, and is set to open in Fall 2019. Photos by Elle Cox ’21.
Net positive: women’s club hockey celebrates a fun season despite ending on a loss
The women’s ice hockey club finished its fall season with a 3-1 loss at home against the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) this past Sunday. The close game comes off a 5-0 loss the day before, also to IUP. “We all started Sunday’s game with a different idea of what IUP was going to bring […]
No more Mr. Ice guy: men’s club hockey skates circles around PSU
This past weekend, the men’s Ice Hockey club traveled to Penn State University, where they won 8-5. Lafayette’s record is now 3-4 as they head into their final two games of the semester. This season, the team has been working hard to acclimate their freshmen players, and improve as a whole. “We practice two nights […]
Men’s basketball loses third straight game
Last Sunday, the Leopards’ men’s basketball team came up short against Sacred Heart, falling by one basket in the last minute of the game in a 64-62 loss at Kirby Sports Center. The team lost the following game to UConn on Wednesday, 90-63, in Storrs, CT. In the Sacred Heart match, the Pioneers were ranked […]
Mister Lee’s Noodles named ’28 Best Ramen Restaurants’: attributes success to ‘fresh,’ ‘seasonal’ ingredients
Mister Lee’s Noodles in the Easton Public Market has recently been named to the list of the 28 Best Ramen Restaurants “from Coast to Coast” by the Food Network. The ranking comes around the same time that the popular downtown restaurant surpassed its record for most bowls sold in one day, selling 440 bowls, according […]
College forms working group in response to campus climate report
In response to the recent campus climate study conducted at Lafayette, the college has formed a working group in order to analyze the data and respond to the issues and recommendations presented by the report. The campus climate survey, conducted in the spring of 2018, was released to administrators this past November. As a whole, […]
Performance Review: Percussion Ensemble delivers unique, exceptional performance
Thunderous booms and resounding crashes echoed out of Williams Center on Monday night as the Lafayette College Percussion Ensemble delivered yet another successful performance. Professor J. Larry Stockton, head of the music department and specialist in traditional Japanese music, has clearly hit his stride once again in his direction of the group. The ensemble is […]
Local farmers discuss sustainability, organic farming: emphasize amount of resources, people behind production
The future of organic farming and issues surrounding land and water resources were discussed by a panel of local farmers following a partial screening of the film “Sustainable.” The event was held by the Lafayette Food and Farm Cooperative (LaFFCo), with a packed house in Buck Hall this past Tuesday. “Sustainable” describes the world as […]
Professor Christopher Phillips finds inspiration, depth in ‘Moby Dick’
Christopher Phillips owes his current position at Lafayette to the great white whale, he said adding that “[Reading] Moby Dick…has tended to be a pretty significant part of my professional development.” “That certainly wasn’t the only piece of the puzzle when they made the decision to hire me, but Moby Dick did help me arrive at […]
Five top-five finishes highlight ECAC Championships for swim and dive teams
The Lafayette swim and dive team finished their fall schedule with a solid showing at the ECAC swim championships last weekend in East Meadow, NY, as the women placed 11th out of 17 teams and the men placed fifth out of 11. The team now has the rest of December off before they resume competition […]
Lafayette Symposium schedules speaker from Pew Research Center, the first since formation of committee
Director of Religion Research at the Pew Research Center Alan Cooperman will be visiting the college in March next semester, an event put on by the Lafayette Symposium. This event, to be held on March 6, will be the first from the symposium since last year’s debate between Brexit architect Nigel Farage and former President […]
Paper Playlist: Tis’ the Finals Season
The Chanukah Song – Adam Sandler Breathe (2am) – Anna Nalick The Sound of Silence – Simon and Garfunkel The Night Santa Went Crazy – “Weird Al” Yankovic Holiday/Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Green Day Jolly Holiday – Mary Poppins Stressed Out – Twenty One Pilots Tomorrow Will Be Kinder – The Secret Sisters Under […]