Dear Lafayette, This week, I close out my second and final year as Editor-in-Chief. I feel lucky to have occupied the role for as long as I have. I’m proud of all that my staff and I have been able to accomplish. Journalism can be a thankless endeavor, but The Lafayette staff has consistently reported […]
Dear Lafayette: Journalism is an integral part of a well-functioning society. When the President of the United States labels the media the “enemy of the people” time and again, he stands in stark contrast not only with reality but the history of the nation. It is a terribly insensitive thing to say following the tragic […]
My first year as editor-in-chief brought no shortage of news. From expansion, to alcohol use on campus, to sexual assault, to athletics, to artistic endeavors, to issues surrounding political discourse, to diversity and more, there was much ground to cover with a fast-approaching deadline. Nevertheless, editors, designers, photographers and writers were working tirelessly all year […]
The Interfraternity Council (IFC) and all men’s fraternities wish to thank the Office of Educational Equity and Pards Against Sexual Assault (PASA) for hosting the #MeToo panel discussion on March 20 which raised awareness and educated the Lafayette community about sexual assault. A number of fraternity men attended the event to demonstrate our commitment to […]
To the Editor: I would like to express my appreciation to Arts & Culture Editor, Mario Sanchez ’21, for his excellent coverage of the arts and his in-depth articles on College history and culture. One of these was the March 9 article on coeducation, in which he interviewed alumni from the early 1970s and used […]
Dear Lafayette, As this school year begins, The Lafayette staff is eager to keep the campus community informed during a time of so much change. The end of last year brought the graduation of three of our editors. I take over for an editor-in-chief who did so much in the last three years to improve the […]
Dear Lafayette community, It has been a busy year. Expansion plans, political protests and a hunger strike that made national news are just a few stories that we’ve covered this academic year. At times, it is exhausting. At others, it’s frustrating. But, always, it’s rewarding. National discussions around “the media” today tend to revolve around […]
To the Editor: I wholeheartedly welcome the push towards holding Lafayette College Student Government accountable through writing regularly about our work and initiatives. However, reporting should be done in a manner where due justice is done to the facts of the matter. Unfortunately, this was not done in last week’s article “Survey: Students find lack […]
To all the people associated with Lafayette College: We are each of us suddenly confronted with one of the most important questions of our lives: what will the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States mean? We, the undersigned faculty members of the college, are deeply concerned that our country now […]
To the Lafayette College Community, Without question, we will all go through something we can label as the most difficult time of our lives. For many of us on this campus, said time occurred during the last weekend of October. The loss of Joey Towers ’18 was a crushing blow to Delta Upsilon, but as […]
Earlier this week, the United States took an enormous step backward. At press time, 29 states voted for a man who bragged about sexually assaulting women, voiced support for committing war crimes, referred to Mexicans as rapists, dismissed climate change as a hoax and supports tightening libel laws to make it harder for newspapers to publish […]
Letter to the editor: Professor Patel is fully entitled to his views about my lecture. He is even free to misrepresent what I said, as he has brazenly done in his written comments. I never vilified Islam as such; I specifically singled out the Hanbali tradition in Sunni Islam as the source of the extremism evidenced by ISIS and similar sub-bestial groups […]
By Youshaa Patel On Tuesday, Professor Habib Malik from the Lebanese American University gave the annual Earl A. Pope Guest Lecture, with the sprawling title, “What Native Christians in the Middle East Have Faced and Continue to Face: Why it Matters for Both the Caring and the Unconcerned.” Tantalized by his previous intellectual engagements with the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, […]
