May 23 marks the original commencement ceremony for the class of 2020. While the ceremony has been postponed until Aug. 1 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, President Alison Byerly and other members of the college decided it is still important to commemorate May 23 with a virtual baccalaureate ceremony, which will take place at 1 […]
From a young age, Josie Brodfuehrer ’20 has remembered the words of her great-grandmother who worked in the Simon Silk Mill before it was reconfigured: ‘Anyone who’s someone goes to Lafayette.” Today, as the Pepper Prize recipient for the class of 2020, Brodfuehrer has not only become “someone,” but has taken advantage of her last […]
What happens when someone with authority employs a tactic typically used by the powerless? Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan posed this question in the context of President Donald Trump’s Twitter usage in this year’s Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Visiting Lecture on Wednesday. Vaidhyanathan, professor of media studies and director of the Center of Media and Citizenship […]
The first positive case of COVID-19 at Lafayette was confirmed by Director of Health Services Jeffrey Goldstein on Wednesday, April 30 in an email sent out to the campus community. The student who tested positive, according to the statement, has been living off campus for the past two weeks and has had “very limited contact […]
