Campus Safety and Security (CSS) officers and the Williamstown Fire Department extinguished a small fire in a dorm room on the second floor of Armstrong in Mission Park on Thursday, Feb. 29. The fire, caused by a cord left under a pile of clothes, damaged only the carpet of the dorm room, which has since been replaced by Facilities, Director for Emergency Management Amalio Jusino wrote in an email to the Record.
The College’s Ad Hoc Transportation Working Group is currently working on a Transportation Hub document, a version of which was published in February. The document is composed of over 15 pages of...
Toby Woods ’27 died on the evening of Feb. 21. He was 18 years old. President Maud S. Mandel announced his death in an all-campus email on Feb. 23. In interviews with the Record, friends remembered Woods for his dedication, his intelligence, and the deep enthusiasm he brought to his relationships and passions.
A woman who identified herself as a College employee heckled Sammy Anzer, a traveling stand-up comedian, with comments he described as “racist” at his comedy show at Bright Ideas Brewing in North Adams on Feb. 3.
The Williams Student Union (WSU) announced the results of its spring election on Feb. 25. Twelve students were elected as representatives this semester, with only the Class of 2027 representatives facing a contested election.
An impromptu memorial service for translator Paul Olchváry was held at Spoon Café in the College’s bookstore on Wednesday, Feb. 21. The event was planned as a book talk with Olchváry, a community member, who was also a renowned translator of Hungarian literature and publisher at the Williamstown-based New Europe Books, but he passed away on Feb. 14, at age 58.
Following the failure of a geothermal test well at the site of the new Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), the College will continue to explore the use of geothermal energy.
The Town will permanently close and ban parking in the empty lot off Water Street, colloquially known as the “dirt lot,” on March 1, the Williamstown Police Department (WPD) announced in a Facebook post on Feb. 22.
Rapper and songwriter bbno$ will headline the Spring Fling concert on April 27, All Campus Entertainment (ACE) announced at the end of its Battle of the Bands event on Feb. 16.
On Feb. 16, Massachusetts State Representatives Natalie Higgins and Christine Barber proposed legislation to impose an annual 2.5-percent excise tax on endowments of higher education institutions whose...
Faculty voted to amend the course catalog to allow students to undo Pass/Fail designations for previous courses until their penultimate semester at the College.
