Pepper Prize winner Valerie Melson ’17 arrived at Lafayette optimistic about the sense of community she saw, and she leaves after working to make that community more welcoming to students of marginalized and diverse identities. A neuroscience major and Posse Scholar, Melson found her voice as president of the Association of Black Collegiates (ABC) and a coordinator […]
Nearly 600 students responded to a survey about sexual assault at the start of the semester. One in four of them reported unwanted sexual contact. Four out of five of those students reported that the contact was from a fellow student. That places Lafayette above an average from 55 other schools in the country. For these schools, the […]
Readers of the morning paper at Farinon will soon have to switch to the morning scroll. Student government unanimously passed a motion on Wednesday night to move to an online-only subscription of The New York Times for all students, abandoning print copies of the paper altogether. Receiving paper copies to Farinon costs roughly $9,000 currently, and the […]
Lafayette is the kind of college where everybody knows your name, but small-town charm has its downfalls. Survivors of sexual assault said fear of judgment from this close-knit community has kept them from speaking out about the crimes against them. Of three women who talked to The Lafayette about their assaults, only one allowed her […]
Men’s rugby were forced to suspend the rest of their spring season last week after the college found them guilty of three alcohol violations. College officials confirmed that the team, a student club, held an event at which they violated rules regarding irresponsible use of alcohol, providing alcohol to minors and student organization events involving alcohol. […]
Several Lafayette students, many first-years, earned top spots in the first annual 26-team National Speech Championship last week. The students were members of the Forensics Society, the speech and debate team at Lafayette. The students on the team compete with other colleges by giving speeches, sometimes planned, sometimes impromptu. At the competition, each participating school was only allowed to […]
When faced with a tough decision between staying ethical and making money, a group of Lafayette students found a way to do both. Lafayette’s Ethics Bowl team emerged victorious from the eight-team competition at DeSales University. Participating as a group of friends, the seniors were up against business students participating in the competition as their final exam. The competition […]
Partly as a result of concerns brought to him by conservative students who feel marginalized on campus, Lafayette College Student Government President Bilal Akbar ’18 motioned to form the Ad Hoc Committee on Ensuring Inclusive Dialogue in a meeting on March 8. Akbar said the committee will hopefully be made up of five to seven […]
On his way to class Monday morning, Noah Decker ’19, was hit while crossing the street by a pickup truck turning right onto Bushkill Drive from College Avenue. Decker said he did not suffer any major injuries from the accident. “I thought I definitely broke something, because I was pretty much in shock when I got hit. I […]
While celebrating her 21st birthday on Wednesday night, Amanda Miner ’18 was killed after in a drunk-driving related car crash on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City. Miner was an anthropology and sociology major who lived in Brooklyn and studied abroad in Costa Rica. She graduated from East Harlem’s Young Women’s Leadership School in 2014. Miner was in […]
The panel discussion “Is Mass Imigration Bad for Europe?” was meant to frame questions from a conservative viewpoint about the effect of Middle East migrants into Europe. Controversy surrounding the topic brought into question not only its content but the title of the discussion itself. This was the second talk in the John Stuart Mill Series. Around 25 […]
The upcoming housing lottery will not require any students to visit Hugel in person and wait for their lottery number to be called to choose a room. Lafayette College Residence Life is moving all housing lotteries and applications online starting this semester, Assistant Director of Residence Life Sarah Yencha said. The general housing lottery of […]
A Lafayette senior was suspended this week after public safety discovered marijuana in his room. But for him, he says, the punishment is more than just a suspension. The student, who wishes to remain anonymous because the case is not public, said his family’s situation at home means that the delay of his degree may effect […]
Aaron Walker ’18 has watched for several years as the schools with bigger teams dominated Forensics tournaments, as has been the case since he first attended one as a first-year. As an impromptu speaker, he once found that “there were a lot of times when I’d get there and have nothing to say.” This year, […]
