Despite almost 100% of students being vaccinated, this week Lafayette experienced its largest spike in COVID-19 cases on campus to date. As of Thursday morning, the college has reported 111 cases from among the student body and zero from faculty and staff. This spike resembles similar trends across the country, where even populations vaccinated at […]
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 […]
The College lost nearly 40 million dollars in revenue because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this and pay cuts implemented within the past year, the financial situation of the College remains secure as Lafayette rebounds. According to Vice President for Finance and Administration Roger Demareski, the College’s endowment mirrored the success of the markets and […]
Lafayette students are universally familiar with the demands of the Common Course of Study (CCS), like the writing requirement and the quantitative reasoning requirement. In the near future, however, students may need to take account of a new element of Lafayette’s general education program: a community service requirement. Fatimata Cham ’23, director of Student Government’s […]
I’m not an epidemiologist or a virologist. And I’m certainly not an immunologist. But I am concerned. It is challenging to look at the College’s COVID-19 Dashboard and not think that, as cases increase, our chances at normalcy, at togetherness, decrease. Many students, myself included, have already been tangibly impacted by these rising case numbers, […]
On Saturday, Sept. 15, there was a disturbance in Easton Hall. While some students and resident advisors reported that an intoxicated man in his underwear had attacked a fellow resident with a knife, Director of Public Safety Jeff Troxell said that such characterizations of the situation were not entirely accurate. “I think there’s a rumor […]
The members of Lafayette’s only multicultural sorority and newest Greek organization, Mu Sigma Upsilon (MSU), are ready to expand their presence. MSU arrives at College Hill after an arduous application process. Since multicultural organizations typically have longer new member education periods than traditional Greek organizations, MSU faced a major obstacle in the form of a […]
Rush week at Lafayette wraps up today after a two-week process. Sororities finished a week ago, and the newest fraternity brothers receive their bids today. Many sophomores dove into this process after an unconventional first year excited at the prospect of expanding their social circles after a year stuck in dorms or at home. “Last […]
The actions of knife-wielding McCartney Street robber led students living off-campus to return to new security features in their home. Lafayette decided to add panic buttons and auto-lock doors to college owned off-campus housing this semester. According to Director of Public Safety Jeff Troxell, the College installed these devices in direct response to the two […]
While currently being used to house upper-level students, no permanent plans exist for the former Tri Delta Sorority House. This leaves open the question of what organization or student group will end up occupying the space. “No organization has been promised use of the facility. What we agreed to do is to hold an open […]
In the wake of the Delta variant surge and the Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, students on college campuses around the country have been required to get their shot. Over 800 colleges or universities around the country have put a vaccine mandate in place for their students returning to […]
Dismay rocked the campus for many this month as Lafayette students learned about the enactment of the new abortion law in Texas. While legislatures across the country have attempted to limit abortion ever since the Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to the procedure in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, the […]
Last May, a number of students submitted One Pard reports to the school after seeing a social media post detailing an alleged bias incident that occurred near campus. The post accused one of Lafayette’s best football players, tight end Steven Stilianos ’22, of being the perpetrator in this incident. He did not travel with the […]
After a spring semester marked by room capacity limits and dining hall restrictions, students have returned to campus with only one pandemic-related requirement: wearing masks inside academic buildings and public spaces. While the college’s vaccine mandate accelerated a return to normalcy—the majority of the classes are now in-person and all students have returned to campus—the […]
