A day wouldn’t feel normal if there wasn’t a news story corroborating what a majority of voters already knew: President Donald Trump and his administration are unfit to govern. It started this week with former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who, after a weekend of revelations that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence with […]
On Wednesday, an article in The New York Times stated that in his first couple of days in office, President Donald Trump has engaged in a “war with math.” I’d go a step further and say the Trump administration has begun a campaign against all things studied in STEM fields, and subsequently, a crusade against […]
Dear readers, Last week was my final week at Lafayette for this semester. I have decided to take a leave of absence for personal reasons. It is a decision that I had been coming to for a long time, and I concluded last week that it was time for me to take some time off. […]
Democrat Tom Wolf was elected as governor of Pennsylvania Tuesday, becoming the first gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania to knock an incumbent out of office since a constitutional change in 1968 allowed governors to run for a second term. Wolf defeated incumbent Tom Corbett by 10 points and almost 350,000 votes, getting support from minorities and […]
Roger A. Demareski will be the new vice president of finance and administration for Lafayette College Photo Courtesy of Lafayette Communications New administrator to come from Princeton University The college announced Monday that they plan to appoint Roger A. Damareski as the new Vice President for Finance and Administration, effective November 17. Damareski will be […]
The Secret Service should not be considering options that infringe on the rights of citizens in the wake of an incident they were not able to prevent. Last Friday, Omar. J. Gonzalez, a retired Iraq war veteran who was showing signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, was able to jump the fence of the White House […]
Decision upheld in conduct case lasting almost a year Photo by Hana Isihara ‘17 The Board of Trustees on Monday upheld an appeal decision in an 11-month-long conduct case involving the Zeta Psi fraternity, ending months of speculation about the fate of the group. The decision, which was made almost a month before the next official […]
Policy changes affect community’s knowledge of reports A student reported a rape that occurred early Saturday morning at an undisclosed residence hall on campus. The incident, which was reported to Public Safety at 10:17 the same morning, occurred at 2 a.m. in a dormitory on campus. The student who reported the rape identified the suspect, […]
President Obama outlined Wednesday night a strategy to help combat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a terrorist group operating in the Middle East that is behind the beheading of two American journalists, through airstrikes in Syria and the deployment of military advisers to Iraq. “ISIL poses a threat to the people of Iraq […]
A student was sexually assaulted at a party on College Hill early Saturday morning, according to an email sent out by Public Safety to the campus community. The email, sent out at 3:23 a.m. the same morning, said that the student reported being sexually assaulted around 2 a.m. while attending a party at a […]
Labor Day marks the beginning of the midterm rush, where candidates and their campaigns ramp up their efforts to get turnout at the polls voting in their favor. It’s usually a hectic rush to the finish line for candidates of either party, trying to rally voters to come out and put them in office. This […]
Last year, I was presented with the opportunity of becoming the editor-in-chief of The Lafayette. It was enticing, but extremely daunting–I was just finishing up my sophomore year, coming off of months as News Editor, where my responsibilities were still important but not as broad. I accepted wholeheartedly; the opportunity excited me, and I was […]
President Byerly announced a new plan over the summer for how college residences are organized, saying that she hopes to create “a unified and comprehensive residential program that connects and integrates residential, co-curricular, and academic experiences for students.” The new program, which Byerly called “Connected Communities” in her email announcement in May, would put students […]
Petition seeks to push “innocent until proven guilty” A Lafayette alumnus has created an online petition hoping to change the way Lafayette handles conduct violations, seeking an “innocent until proven guilty” approach in lieu of the current “more likely than not” stance. Currently, the handbook reads that “a violation will be deemed to have occurred […]
