Jan. 20 | 3 p.m.
On Thursday, the College reported 21 new student and 12 new faculty and staff positive cases. 2041 test results were added to the COVID dashboard around 1:15 p.m. This brings the weekly positive total to 63 for students, faculty, and staff combined, and 43 for students. The College’s positivity rate is down to 1.46 percent today. The highest recorded rate was 3.48 percent on Jan. 3, according to the dashboard.
In a campus-wide email sent on Wednesday, Jan. 12, Dean of the College Marlene Sandstrom announced a “recover-in-place” strategy for students who test positive for COVID-19. The College will permit students who test positive to isolate in their rooms, as long as they live in a single dorm.
Why I Never Left Williams College, a new memoir written by acclaimed football coach Dick Farley and Director of Sports Information Dick Quinn, recounts Farley’s decades-long career coaching at the College. The premise is simple: Farley moved out to Williamstown with plans to stay for a couple of years before moving on; instead, he never left.
On a chilly evening in early December, four Record editors headed to Greylock WORKS, where Associate Professor of English Emily Vasiliauskas and her husband, Ryan Riley, own and operate a distillery.
In a piece adapted from a eulogy given at the Nov. 2 on-campus memorial service for Alden Powers ’24, Lillie Bushway ’24 remembers Powers as a kind and creative friend who made the world “that much more beautiful.”
Tucked within the basement of Prospect House is the broadcasting studio for WCFM, the student-run radio station at the College. This semester, for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the studio is bustling with a new cadre of radio DJs.