Aiden Clarke ’28 is a prospective math and history major from Queens, NY. He is a College News Editor. Previously he served as a staff writer for the news section.
The College will not alter its policy on lowering the American flag at this time, despite considering a change last week. In an Oct. 1 all-campus email, President of the College Maud S. Mandel wrote that the College will continue to follow all gubernatorial orders to lower the flag.
Oberlin College announced 2025–26 as the “Year of AI Exploration,” providing all faculty and staff access to enterprise versions of ChatGPT and Google Gemini. This initiative follows Duke’s similar summer pilot with OpenAI, which provided all undergraduate students with unlimited access to GPT-4o as well as DukeGPT, an internal platform offering AI tools developed by Duke using GPT-5.
The College’s health insurance offering for students switched providers from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to UnitedHealthcare Student Resources this academic year.
Shana Dixon and Jane Patton will vie for a spot on the Williamstown Select Board in the annual Town election on May 13. Either Dixon, who chairs the Town’s Diversity, Inclusion, and Racial Equity Committee (DIRE), or Patton, who has served on the Board for the last 12 years, will serve one year of a three-year term, filling the seat that was vacated by Andy Hogeland ’76 after his resignation last year.
The Junior Advisor (JA) Program Working Group publicly released its final report last Friday, outlining a series of recommendations for the JA program, including a target JA to first-year ratio, expanding eligibility for the JA position, and creating opportunities for former and current JAs to give recommendations that will inform future changes to the JA program.
“This Week in Williams History” is a column that looks back at memorable moments in the College’s past through articles in the Record. This week in history, the Record covered the College’s absence from a national anti-war strike, its exchange program with women’s colleges, the Record’s 100-year anniversary, and the beginnings of Factrak.
The Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Integrity published its draft report proposing changes to the College’s Honor system in March and presented its proposals at the April 9 faculty meeting. The committee proposed renaming the Honor and Discipline Committee as the Committee on Academic Integrity (CAI).
The College launched the CARE Team, a committee that directs students identified through referrals as needing additional support to available campus resources, this academic year.
International Student Services (ISS) hosted its ninth annual “Know Your Rights” workshop on March 5, in partnership with the Berkshire Immigrant Center (BIC). During the workshop, BIC staff spoke with students and community members about immigrants’ rights. This year’s workshop was held amid an increasingly adverse environment for immigrants following President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Campus Safety Services publicly published a surveillance camera policy for the first time on Feb. 6. The policy sets official guidelines for the use of security footage, stipulates that footage from cameras in most locations can be stored for no more than 30 days, and requires senior staff at the College to approve the installation of any new cameras.
Middlebury has adopted a new policy in which students planning to study away for a single semester are assigned a term by the Office of International Programs, according to the Middlebury Campus. Students will be able to express a preference of whether to study away in the spring or fall semester but will ultimately be assigned.
Lyceum dinner — a tradition in which students and faculty members share a formal meal — has been delayed amid ongoing staffing shortages in the Office of Campus Life (OCL).
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