This year, students spent Winter Study all over the globe: from Austria to Georgia to Japan. To learn more about their experiences, the Record spoke with students currently and recently abroad, as well as faculty that organized and oversaw the trips.
This weekend was the culmination of four weeks in which students in the Winter Study course "A Filmmaker's Workshop" produced short films, led by their experienced course instructor: actress Jessica Hecht.
This Winter Study, students offered not one, but two poker Free University courses, both centered on escaping the male-dominated poker landscape. The courses — “Poker Power: Flip the Odds in Your Favor” and “Poker Lessons for non cis men” — targeted a female and nonbinary audience.
Last Tuesday, the Center for Learning in Action (CLiA) launched a new financial literacy platform for all students in collaboration with Kindros, a public benefit corporation with the goal of increasing access to personal finance education.
Each week, the Record (using a script in R) randomly selects a student at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature, excluding current Record board members. This week, Elias Devadoss ’25 discussed life as a member of the Springstreeters, how he creates his outfits, and his affinity for poker.
Over the last decade, through various iterations and across multiple platforms, the Free Food Alerts group chat has become just that: a place for students at the College to, yes, shout out free food, but also to voice musings on life in general.
The Park family’s long legacy of employment at the College is now coming to a close as Jessy Park prepares for the end of 43 years as a mail clerk in the mailroom that was named after her in 2007.
Some professors at the College live a stone’s throw away from campus and can be spotted walking their dogs across Paresky lawn in the afternoon — but some professors commute many hours every week to teach at the College.
This Friday, on the off-chance that one is driving through Williamstown at around 2 a.m. with the radio on, they’ll stumble across a happy surprise: the middle of a 24-hour read-aloud of James Joyce’s Ulysses organized by WCFM.
Since its inception over seven years ago, BDP has been an ardent advocate for reproductive justice at the College. Today, it’s responding to the changing abortion landscape in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court decision.
Each week, the Record (using a script in R) randomly selects a student at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature, excluding current Record board members. This week, Alisha Naidu ’24 discussed early mornings, the harp, and her love of feminist philosophy.
