The Williams Record

CSS to discontinue unannounced room checks during fire drills

Rebecca Bao • May 7, 2025

Room inspections will no longer occur during fire drills, according to Director of Campus Safety Services Jeff Palmer. The College’s Environmental Health and Safety division, which operates under CSS, will conduct future inspections only during winter and spring breaks and will no longer check student’s dorms for room condition and prohibited items during fire drills, Palmer wrote in an email to the Record.

‘You cannot ignore us’: NISA hosts Indigenous Community Gathering

Christopher Hughes and Dalia Levanon • May 7, 2025

Hosted on April 26 by the Native American Indigenous Student Alliance (NISA) in collaboration with Native students from Dartmouth, the Northeastern Intertribal Indigenous Community Gathering honored and brought together Indigenous communities from across the country and globe in a day-long reflection and celebration of Native students, Native leaders, Native community members, and Native faculty in the northeast.

Spring Street should be for people, not cars

Gus Demerath • May 7, 2025

In an op-ed, Gus Demerath ’25 proposes an new design for Spring Street that brings the community together.

Sports

The women’s 1v crew came in third at New Englands on Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Olivia Thurman '27.)

Women’s crew 1v nabs third at NERCs

Arleny Flores • May 7, 2025

Women’s crew competed fiercely at the New England Rowing Championships (NERCs) in Worcester, Mass., on Saturday, with the 1v taking third place behind the MIT Engineers and Tufts Jumbos.

Features

Students parading the Giant Daikon Radish past the Spencer Art Studio. (Photo courtesy of Beneyam Hassen and Beza Lulseged.)

Parade of the Giant Daikon Radish: Riku Nakano ’25 brings absurdity and melancholy to senior thesis

Juno Pelczar • May 7, 2025

Did you see the parade? Last Sunday, Riku Nakano '25's senior thesis marched across campus. Students donned a 20-foot wearable daikon radish, walking in a group from the Spencer Art building to Stone Hill. Nakano reflects on her thesis, her inspiration, and the community that helped her along her radishy path.