On a foggy Tuesday morning, the students in the class “Globalization and Its Critics”, watch a video produced by NPR revealing the harsh reality of worker exploitation in “far-away” countries. Suddenly, the banana on our desk was not innocent. It was picked by somebody who is not being given proper medical care to deal with […]
The Night Santa Went Crazy – “Weird Al” Yankovic Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer – Elmo & Patsy The Chanukah Song – Adam Sandler Present Face – Garfunkel and Oates Progressive Christmas Carols – Jon Cozart Another Christmas Song – Stephen Colbert Merry Merry Merry Frickin’ Christmas – Frickin’ A I Won’t Be […]
The following teams are the winners of this semester’s Team Barge Competition: 1st place (tied) Tara Leininger ’22, Michael Bongiorno’22, Will Murphy ’22 and Kevin Manogue ’22 1st place (tied) Bingsong Zeng ’20, Bobby Luo ’21, Zhanfan Yu ’21 and Zerui Xu ’22 3rd place Elene Karangozishvili ’21, Zurab Mestiashvili ’20 and Deniz Ozbay ’22 […]
Fuck You Bitch – Wheeler Walker Jr. Fuck You – Cee Lo Green Let’s Bash – The Lonely Island It’s a Great Day to Whup Somebody’s Ass – Paul Thorn Fight Me – Molly Brazy Watch What Happens from Newsies You’re Going Down – Sick Puppies This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race – Fall […]
This is the answer key for the crossword that was published in the November 22 issue of The Lafayette.
Get on Your Feet – Gloria Estefan Dance, Dance – Fall Out Boy Footloose – Kenny Loggins I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) – Whitney Houston I’m So Excited – The Pointer Sisters Dancing Queen – ABBA Take a Step Back – Ski Mask The Slump God, XXXTENTACION Boogie Wonderland – Earth, Wind […]
Support for sexual assault survivors is passive. People are generally supportive of organizations such as PASA on campus because it would be frowned upon to be against victims of sexual assault. But how much are people that publicly support PASA doing? How much is the campus doing? I was sexually assaulted; the details do not […]
This is the answer key for the crossword that was published in the November 15 issue of The Lafayette.
What’s My Age Again? – blink-182 Do I Wanna Know? – Arctic Monkeys Are You Experienced? – Jimi Hendrix What Do You Do with a B.A. in English/It Sucks to Be Me from Avenue Q Why Don’t You Get a Job – The Offspring How Do You Get High? – The Weepies Where’s My Shoe? […]
You and some friends want to go hiking in the newly established Lehigh Valley National Park, which claims to be more beautiful than Yosemite! The park boasts 20 spectacular sites including mirrored lakes, snow capped peaks, and giant waterfalls. Additionally there are 760 trails, each connecting two of the 20 sites. The US Park Service has […]
My big plans of traveling to the United States with the hope of gaining a better education began in Poland when my family got approved for their green card in 2012. Three years later, I landed at JFK airport. Only later, I realized that the journey to the US often is not as smooth and […]
Monster Mash – Bobby “Boris” Picket Ghost – Halsey Spooky Scary Skeletons – Andrew Gold She Wolf – Shakira Monster – Lady Gaga Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings) – Silversun Pickups Feed My Frankenstein – Alice Cooper Your Bones – Of Monsters and Men Scary Monsters – David Bowie Haunted – Evanescence Don’t Fear the Reaper […]
This past weekend, as Jews across America and around the world commemorated last year’s mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue with the movement #ShowUpForShabbat, my synagogue received two bomb threats. My parents were visiting me for Family Weekend and I was about to lead Shabbat services at Hillel when my mom got a […]
As a student in Lafayette’s first joint mathematics/art course, you are given the project of painting each point of an equilateral triangle (with side length 1) one of four colors. After a ludicrous number of hours you somehow manage to paint each of these infinite points! Excited to hand in your masterpiece, you realize (having […]
