Savanna Toure’s goals of studying medicine and doing biomedical research after Lafayette are now even more attainable after receiving both the Goldwater Scholarship and Truman Scholarship, two notable and selective awards given out at the national level. Toure ’21 is the first student at Lafayette to receive the Truman Scholarship. Toure admitted she was not […]
Month: April 2020
Alaska man pleads guilty to false bomb threats against Lafayette
The 21-year-old Alaskan gamer, Gavin Lee Casdorph, pled guilty on Monday, Apr. 20 to one count of willfully making false threats against Lafayette College in May of 2018. US District Judge Edward G. Smith presided over the guilty plea hearing in Easton via video teleconference, according to the press release from the Department of Justice. […]
Micro-internships provide new opportunities for summer work experience
With summer jobs and internships being cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many students have been left without a way to earn money or have a job experience during the summer months. However, new opportunities for remote, “micro-internships” may provide Lafayette students with an alternate for the upcoming summer months. Micro-internships typically range […]
Class of 2020 George Wharton Pepper Prize finalists announced
The George Wharton Pepper Prize, awarded annually to the senior “who most nearly represents the Lafayette Ideal,” was established in 1923 by George Wharton Pepper H’22, a United States Senator from Pennsylvania, an attorney, and a founding member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. The 10 finalists this are Princess Adeyinka, Trisha Agarwal, Yazmin Baptiste, […]
Mental health invisible tour podcast gives a voice to ‘invisible populations’
For the majority of students who are spending the remainder of the spring semester at home rather than on campus, the Mental Health Invisible Tour podcast of Lafayette College may be the perfect opportunity to reconnect with to College Hill and other students in a new, creative and vulnerable way. The invisible tour podcast is […]
Room and board credits for individual students to be announced April 10
Tomorrow, students are expected to receive communication from the student billing office regarding each individual’s specific refund amount for the spring semester’s room and board fees. These refunds are a result of students having to leave campus prior to spring break due to the COVID-19 pandemic. President Alison Byerly and Roger Demareski, Vice President of […]
Uniting remotely against Sexual Assault: PASA to hold series of virtual events for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April has been designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) since 2001. Despite not being on campus this year, Pards Against Sexual Assault (PASA) plans to recognize the importance of this month and what it represents with the entire campus community, if not a larger one, through a series of virtual, month-long events. PASA has […]
Incredulous Uber Eats driver receives parking ticket while dropping off pizza at South College dorm
Jack Ash, an area Uber Eats driver, was left astonished on Wednesday evening after receiving a parking ticket while delivering a large half-cheese, half-pepperoni pizza to a group of freshman students in South College dorm. Mr. Ash, 32, of Easton, alleges that he left his vehicle in a parking space for less than a minute […]
Lower to offer catering service so college doesn’t have to refund meal plans
In the wake of the school closing, many students have called for certain services like housing and meal plans to be partially refunded. In response, college president Libby Arts has reopened Lower and offered a delivery service to those who order within a 500-mile radius. The regular cooks have returned, and some other workers have […]
Student misses class: ‘My laptop got Corona’
Last Tuesday, mechanical engineering major Sharona Vyrice ‘22 missed class, saying her laptop was unusable due to COVID-19. “Because of the remote learning difficulties, I am urging professors to be more lenient in cases like mine where the student is unable to use their computer,” she said. She made an appeal to the school president, […]
Varsity teams to hold Zoom practices
Due to the coronavirus ending the athletic season, many teams are forced to continue their practices over Zoom, a video chat application. The decision was announced by Patriot League President Duncan Schute. “We hold out athletes to the highest standards,” Schute said. “They will need to elevate their game quarantine or no quarantine.” Baseball teams […]