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BELLAMY RICHARDSON/THE WILLIAMS RECORDNoah Savage ’21, founder of the Cult, draws a rune using charcoal from the club’s first meeting. A new club at the College that calls itself “the Cult” has attracted students with cryptic flyers posted around campus.
“As I entered Mission … I saw this one flyer that said, ‘Wanna join a cult?’ and immediately that caught my eye,” Katarina Mattmuller ’20 said.
PHOTOS COURTESY OF JULES CLARDY.In her Frosh Quad single (above), which smells pleasantly of herbs, Clardy said she has “completely maxed out all of my wall and ceiling space.”
Album covers and art adorn Clardy’s room, which she has filled with decoration she finds beautiful and evoke memories. “At my great-grandmother’s house on Cape Cod, we have a really terrifying hall that’s just filled with oil paintings of my dead relatives,” Jules Clardy ’23 said.
TAI HENRICHS/The Williams RecordGrant Gattuso, Will Titus and Jackson Anderson have attended firefighting trainings since January. Jackson Anderson ’23, Grant Gattuso ’23 and Will Titus ’23 lie on the ground, waiting to be rescued.
PHOTO COURTESY OF LAUREN HEUER.At a dinner held by new club Williams Appreciates Staff, Ryan Young ’22 addressed staff members. Lauren Heuer ’20 and Katherine Mahoney ’20 founded Williams Appreciates Staff (WAS), a new club on campus, because of what they saw to be a lack of appreciation and inclusion for staff at the College.
“Williams prides itself on having a strong community, but really when we say community, what we actually are including are the students,” Mahoney said.
ZOE BANK/THE WILLIAMS RECORDCohen received a $79,585 grant last April for her research in geosciences. How did life begin on Earth?
Each week, we randomly select a unix from a list of all current students at the College. So long as the owner of the selected unix is on campus, willing to be interviewed and not a member of the Record board, that person becomes the subject of that week’s One in Two Thousand.
On EphMatch, students can scroll through other students’ profiles, edit their bios and photos and match with each other. Photo courtesy of Williams Students Online.
Jacob Shuman ’20 (left) and Isaiah Krugman ’20 (right) chop cilantro in preparation for the weekly Shabbat dinner in the Jewish Religious Center. BELLAMY RICHARDSON/THE WILLIAMS RECORD
“Lemme tell ya, Isaiah is a mensch.”
When I asked Williams College Jewish Association (WCJA) co-Religious Director Melvin Lewis ’22 to tell me about Isaiah Krugman ’20, these were the first words out of his mouth.
Krugman is one of two Jewish Religious Center (JRC) kitchen directors, along with Claudia Inglessis ’22, who is away for Winter Study. His job, along with Inglessis’, is to prepare and serve dinner at the JRC after Shabbat services conclude there every Friday evening.
A new class in the Arabic studies department called “Introduction to the Persian Language and Contemporary Iranian Culture,” created in December, has gained student interest recently in part due to the assassination of Iranian Major General Qassim Soleimani at the hands of the U.S. government. The class will be focused on basic spoken Persian, with an emphasis on learning through art, readings and films.
The class was created by Professor of History and Arabic Studies Department Chair Magnús Bernhardsson after “an energetic and ambitious group of students started organizing a Persian language table” this past fall, Bernhardsson said.
The brand’s Instagram advertises XED Beverages’ gin and tonic drink. PHOTO COURTESY OF ZEKE BRONFMAN.
The Armstrong-Pratt 4 entry poses for a photo before their formal. The theme was “a 4tnite in Paris.” PHOTO COURTESY OF PETROS MARKOPOULOS.
A Fortnite-themed backdrop adorned the wall of the fourth-floor Armstrong common room Thursday night as dozens of students crowded the halls, talking and posing for photos.
