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 […]
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Paper Playlist: FINE. Here’s your fucking holiday playlist.
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 […]
Team Barge Contest Winners for the Fall 2019 Semester
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 […]
Paper Playlist: Dear Lehigh,
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 […]
‘Saturday’s showdown’ solutions for 11/22/19 issue
This is the answer key for the crossword that was published in the November 22 issue of The Lafayette.
Paper Playlist: Get on your feet!
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 […]
Op-ed: Sexual assault ‘allies.’ Quit the bullshit. Tell us where you really stand.
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 puzzle’s worth squawking about’ solutions
This is the answer key for the crossword that was published in the November 15 issue of The Lafayette.
Paper Playlist: Newspaper FAQs
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? […]
Barge Problem: Go take a hike!
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 […]
Op-ed: Home is Here
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 […]
Paper Playlist: Bring your own boos!
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 […]
Op-Ed: Healing from Pittsburgh in Light of Another Threat
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 […]
Barge Problem: A four color problem
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 […]