From College Hill to Broadway to Netflix and beyond, actor Brian Hutchison ’93 has come a long way since his days in Easton. Hutchison helped the college celebrate their Homecoming Week this past Monday by chatting with the Lafayette community about his most recent project, “The Boys in the Band.” The 2020 Netflix movie is an […]
KeeShawn Murphy ’20 is, in her words, “naturally attracted to spoken word and poetry.” This year, that attraction paid off as she won the college’s MacKnight Black Poetry Competition. The MacKnight Black Poetry Competition is an annual contest for college seniors. The competition’s namesake honors MacKnight Black, an American poet and 1916 graduate of Lafayette College. […]
For most musicians, the last few months have not been easy. In the words of Lewis Baratz, director of the college’s Chamber Orchestra, they have been “a musician’s nightmare.” Baratz and many other leaders of music ensembles on campus have had to come up with “other experiences to create,” leading to some innovative and adaptive […]
In a virtual coffeehouse concert concert held over Zoom Wednesday night, students gathered remotely to listen to Javier Colon perform a number of both original and cover songs. Although it was probably quite different from any concert venue he has performed in, Colon consistently interacted with his audience by thanking individuals by name, accepting audience […]
For the majority of students who are spending the remainder of the spring semester at home rather than on campus, the Mental Health Invisible Tour podcast of Lafayette College may be the perfect opportunity to reconnect with to College Hill and other students in a new, creative and vulnerable way. The invisible tour podcast is […]
“Black students at Lafayette need more Black students to fill out our community,” wrote James R. Hairston ’71, the former social chairman of the Association of Black Collegians (ABC) and one of the first black students to attend Lafayette College. “We need more Black students so that the Black experience is not lost but shared […]
Artists Chloe Bass and Glenn Goldberg have differing artistic backgrounds, but they share a common desire for intimacy in artwork, a concept which they will explore in their time at the college. Bass and Goldberg are the latest to visit the college for the Experimental Printmaking Institute (EPI), a professional printshop that invites artists from […]
Ronen Koresh, founder and artistic director of the Koresh Dance Company, refuses to give any explanation of his choreography. “You do not rob anybody of their experiences when they watch a show,” Koresh said. “It becomes an exchange between the artist and the viewer. People ask me ‘What was the piece about?’ No, you tell […]
For Jim Wilson, cellist and artistic director of the Grammy award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, hearing an orchestra perform live is like seeing a Monet painting in person as opposed to in print. This weekend, the Lafayette and Easton communities will have the opportunity to experience Wilson’s own orchestra perform live. The distinguished chamber orchestra will […]
The Lafayette Emergency Medical Services (LCEMS) club kicked off National Collegiate EMS (NCEMS) Week with Coffee and Compressions, in which Lafayette students got a chance to learn hands-only CPR in exchange for a free cup of coffee. The event is consistent with one of LCEMS’s major stated goals which they have been pursuing since the […]
The banning of literature is a topic that has long been discussed by intellectuals and the general public. When books are forbidden, it begs the question: what justifies such censorship? “But who does not know of literature banned because it is interrogative; discredited because it is critical; erased because alternate?” renowned novelist Toni Morrison asked […]
Hordes of spotted lanternflies have been swarming across the eastern half of Pennsylvania, and Lafayette’s campus lies right in their path. The spotted lanternfly is an invasive planthopper species native to China, Bangladesh, and Vietnam. According to NPR, it likely made its way to Pennsylvania by hitching a trans-Pacific ride on a shipping container. The […]
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “Amazon?” Rainforests? Online shopping? Wonder Woman? Lise Leet, a professor of French and francophone studies at Franklin & Marshall College, would likely think of Camilla, the fierce Amazon warrior maiden described in Virgil’s “Aeneid” (19 BC). On Wednesday, Leet explained this connection in […]
