There was a time when it appeared the Lafayette baseball team had little hopes of making the playoffs. The day was Wednesday, April 7, and the team had just lost their eighth consecutive game, this time falling to rival Lehigh 7-6 in extra innings. The Leopards were 4-9 and had beaten just one conference opponent, […]
Baseball (14-17) (12-13 Patriot League) Head coach Tim Reilly’s first full season at the helm of the program saw the Leopards amass their best regular season winning percentage since the 2009 season, before bowing out in the semifinal round of the playoffs. Men’s lacrosse (0-11) (0-8) The team has not won a conference game since […]
There may not be a ton of similarities between researching high-energy particle physics and swimming a 200-yard individual medley, but for Tara Leininger ’22 – one seems to feed the other. That might be because she’s good at both. A physics and math major, Leininger earned the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship in April, an award […]
Two sexual assaults and one rape have been reported in the past two months, as the college grapples with the ongoing issue of sexual violence and student activists demand that the administration do more. All three of the alleged incidents were anonymous third-party reports. The rape case was submitted through One Pard and the two […]
The Lafayette men’s lacrosse team went 0-11 this spring, but you wouldn’t know it talking to head coach Pat Myers. In the highly competitive Patriot League, wins are hard to come by in the sport. Myers already knows this, as his squad hasn’t beaten a conference opponent during his three seasons on College Hill. But […]
The pandemic has brought some unique silver linings to student-athletes at Lafayette and around the country. In a rare move, the NCAA expanded eligibility to all fall and winter sports during the 2020-21 season. This follows a similar decision by the organization in March of last year as COVID-19 took hold. Student-athletes have traditionally been […]
Another year, another heartbreaking finish for the Lafayette men’s soccer team. An undefeated spring season came to a crashing halt in Saturday’s Patriot League championship game, as the Leopards lost their second consecutive title match after dropping a 1-0 result to Lehigh in fall 2019. This time, Lafayette fought to double-overtime before an opportunistic American […]
The Lafayette men’s soccer team is headed to the Patriot League championship game for the second straight year. The Leopards punched their ticket to the finals with a 2-1 win in the conference semifinal game on Wednesday against Holy Cross. Senior defender Andrew Venezia and junior forward Max Ippolito scored a goal apiece, and the […]
After an alleged party was held in the Phi Kappa Psi basement in late February, the fraternity was charged with three violations: failure to comply with COVID-19 policies, serving alcohol to minors and having an unregistered event with alcohol. Phi Psi was found not guilty on all three charges after a Faculty Committee on Student […]
The Lafayette men’s soccer team ought to play in the spring more often. For the first time since 2008, the program has recorded five straight victories, the latest being a 2-1 win over Army last weekend which improved the team’s record to a perfect 5-0. Sophomore forward Hale Lombard struck early with a second-minute goal, […]
A week after students sounded the alarm over maskless Public Safety officers roaming the Lafayette campus, a clear disconnect remains between the expectations for officers and for the rest of the community. Director of Public Safety Jeff Troxell said he spoke with Chief of Police Jim Meyer about the issue of maskless officers and they […]
Senior midfielder Camryn Monfort scored the game-winning goal on a screamer from outside the penalty box as the Leopards defeated Colgate 3-1 last Saturday for their first win this spring. The team is now 1-1-1 at the midway point of a shortened season, with three games remaining before the playoffs begin in April. “I am […]
When Genevieve Torres ’24 watched a maskless Public Safety officer walk out of South College dormitory on Tuesday night, she thought about calling the person out. “I hesitated,” Torres said. “I thought they might write me up.” Such is the conundrum for many Lafayette students, who are stuck between a rock and a hard place […]
The week following an alleged party in the basement of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, the number of positive cases skyrocketed, with Lafayette recording its highest positive test count since the beginning of the pandemic. A total of 42 positive student cases were found on campus last week with the vast majority linked to specific […]
