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The Student-Run Newspaper of Williams College Since 1887

The Williams Record

The Student-Run Newspaper of Williams College Since 1887

The Williams Record

The Student-Run Newspaper of Williams College Since 1887

The Williams Record

Aluna Brogdon, Executive Editor at Large

Aluna Brogdon is a senior history major from New York City. She is an Executive Editor at Large. Previously she served as Executive Editor of archives and as features section editor.

She can be reached at [email protected].

All content by Aluna Brogdon
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BSU hosts community forum, campus responds to hate crimes

Aluna Brogdon and Aiden Clarke November 19, 2025
The Black Student Union (BSU) hosted a community conversation at the Davis Center on Nov. 12 in response to recent bias incidents on campus. This semester, five students have made reports to Campus Safety Services (CSS) of individuals in passing cars shouting racial slurs at Black students. More students told the Record that they experienced similar harassment but did not make an official CSS report.
Black students at the College find community through hair braiding. (Julia Karp/The Williams Record)

Hair braiding provides source of identity, community for Black students at the College

Aluna Brogdon and Rehema Mwamburi May 1, 2024
Limited access to goods and services determines many students’ experience of Williamstown. For Black students, the College’s geography is not only a peripheral inconvenience: It’s directly related to intimate parts of daily life, including the care and preservation of hair. The Record interviewed students at the College about the networks of hair styling at the College, the politics of hair and respectability, and the position of hair as a locus of community and empowerment. 
College celebrates opening of Davis Center complex with festivities after two-year renovation

College celebrates opening of Davis Center complex with festivities after two-year renovation

Aluna Brogdon April 17, 2024
Last weekend, the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (OIDEI), the ’68 Center for Career Exploration, the Office of Alumni Engagement, and the Davis Center held a series of events in conjunction with Bolin Legacy Mentorship Weekend — an alum engagement weekend that honors the legacy of Gaius Charles Bolin Sr., Class of 1889, the first Black graduate of the College — to celebrate the reopening of the DC’s new building complex.
Photo courtesy of Sasha Tucker.

WCFM to rejoice over Joyce at all-day read-a-thon

Aluna Brogdon, Features Editor December 6, 2023
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.
Klugman, Singh, and Farris Farouki ’27 sold baked goods in order to raise money and supplement AP1’s budget (Aluna Brogdon/The Williams Record).

JAs, first-years contend with constrained entry budgets

Aluna Brogdon October 4, 2023
Students near Paresky Center on Oct. 2 might have noticed an unusual sight: a bake sale run by Junior Advisors (JAs) and first-years from the Mission Park entry AP1. The bake sale is one of many tactics the JAs are using to maximize funds, including keeping budget spreadsheets and, to them, making trade-offs.
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