To the Lafayette community, The number of hate crimes has been increasing in our country since 2014, and in 2019, we saw a record high number of hate-motivated murders and gender identity-based assaults, according to the FBI. These incidents are not isolated and reflect ongoing and systematic discrimination in our country. Lafayette is not immune […]
What did you miss the most while being away from Lafayette this summer? Editor-in-Chief: Lucie Lagodich Living on Monroe Street, I missed that sense of community that I didn’t have this past summer or during the pandemic. The ability to ask your neighbors if they have powdered sugar and watch them grab a megaphone and blast it […]
It’s around that time of the year again, when a graduating senior will soon be awarded the George Wharton Pepper Prize. Seniors who are academically successful and have “noteworthy participation” in campus activities that build the community on- and off-campus are eligible for the prize, but the college website adds that “academic brilliance or athletic […]
For the past week, all Greek Organizations at Lafayette have frantically been relocating all remaining snow into their respective houses in order to keep them as white as possible. “The seasons are changing and so are the demographics of the fraternity,” an anonymous fraternity president shared with The Lafayette. “This is unacceptable. We are dedicated […]
As students and faculty reflect on the past 50 years of co-education at Lafayette, one thing has become abundantly clear: the admission of women into the college has led to nothing but trouble. On June 1, 1967, a committee was established to explore the possibility of admitting females to degree programs at Lafayette College. Committee […]
Popular Easton dive bar Milo’s Place is struggling financially to operate at 25% capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing the establishment to turn away patrons at the door once the crowd reaches the 275-person limit. “It’s been a tough year with the lockdowns,” said Tony Bonanno, Milo’s Place owner. “But despite the setbacks, we are […]
Due to Lafayette’s success in managing the pandemic, the administration has consulted with members of the CDC and decided to add an additional operational level: Level -1. Level -1 will be below Level 0, and will only be put into place when the campus has either exactly 0% of students with COVID-19 or 100%. Either […]
The success of this week’s 48-hour spring break has prompted the administration to take a closer look at the true place of a “break” on college campuses. “This week’s spring break was really efficient. We went to bed on Monday night feeling exhausted and got up Thursday morning ready to go. The birds were singing, […]
After the recent spike in GameStop stock and the noticeable lack of a spike in available financial aid, the Board of Trustees officially approved the motion for all members of the financial aid office to be replaced with GameStop executives. “We were all so jealous watching the stock spike at the end of January, and […]
Due to the college’s concerns about an influx of students enjoying time on the Quad as warmer weather approaches, Lafayette administrators made the executive decision to institute a “Virtual Quad,” in which students can log in and access lawn games, have social interactions, and enjoy time in the sun from the comfort of their laptops. […]
In an unfortunate start to their first practice this spring, the entire crew team is apparently lodged diagonally in a massive boat-pileup across the Delaware River. “Our glasses got all fogged up from breathing under our masks,” senior coxswain Cock Sin ’21 screamed from the middle of the river. “One minute we were chillin’ and […]
In response to elevated concerns of community transmission of COVID-19, Bailey Health Center will be operating completely remotely for the rest of the spring 2021 semester, leaving students with no place to discreetly collect free condoms they won’t use. Bailey has committed to provide each Lafayette College student with a self-administering vaccine kit complete with […]
The Lafayette editorial and design staff would like to offer a formal apology to the student body for a recent story published about student Michael S. Duck ‘23. Last week, Duck went viral for finding cheese-covered shrimp tails in his Lower quesadilla. “The shrimp tails were pretty wild, but I could tell something was really […]
The Lafayette Newspaper staff is under investigation for hazing allegations. The allegations, alleged by new members, include forcing writers to stay up late on consecutive days and forcing them to text potential interviewees who have no intention of responding. When Public Safety was alerted of the hazing allegations, two maskless officers immediately made their way […]
