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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

Danny Jin

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Campus responds to Winter Study dining changes

Campus responds to Winter Study dining changes

Danny Jin February 19, 2020
The partial closures of ’82 Grill and Lee Snack Bar over Winter Study were intended to test if dining services could temporarily consolidate menus to allow staff to participate in a new January training program, according to Director of Dining Services Temesgen Araya.
Town, Gown, and Native land

Town, Gown, and Native land

Danny Jin December 6, 2019

The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians livedinwhatisnowknownas Berkshire County prior to the tribe’s forced relocation west. On its website, the tribe has documented its history in a project...

Statement addresses inquiry, inclusion

Statement addresses inquiry, inclusion

Danny Jin November 20, 2019

A statement published last Wednesday by the Faculty Steering Committee (FSC) emphasizes inquiry and inclusion as dual priorities for the College.  President Maud S. Mandel tasked the FSC with...

Football finished 1989 with a perfect 8–0 record after a 17-14 homecoming victory over Amherst. (Bill Tague/The Berkshire Eagle.)

A look back on historic ’89 football season

Danny Jin November 6, 2019

Football finished 1989 with a perfect 8–0 record after a 17-14 homecoming victory over Amherst. (Bill Tague/The Berkshire Eagle.) Thirty years ago, a homecoming bout with Amherst was all that stood...

Blackhawk gives 2019 Davis Lecture

Blackhawk gives 2019 Davis Lecture

Danny Jin October 30, 2019

Ned Blackhawk discussed the narratives surrounding Indigenous people in American history. (Nicky Wu/The Williams Record) While historical narratives of the American Revolution have centered colonists’...

Martha Jones speaks on birthright citizenship

Martha Jones speaks on birthright citizenship

Danny Jin September 18, 2019

Professor Martha Jones of Johns Hopkins delivers her talk on birthright citizenship and pre-Civil War Black activism, which was held on Sept. 12. PHOTO COURTESY OF NEIL ROBERTS. The Fourteenth Amendment,...

Poster disappearances spark discussion

Poster disappearances spark discussion

Danny Jin April 24, 2019

The disappearance of posters last week, including materials for student activism and for an anti-gun violence event organized by Joy James, the Francis Christopher Oakley third century professor of humanities,...

Staff Issue: Letter from the Editor

Staff Issue: Letter from the Editor

Danny Jin April 3, 2019

Today’s edition explores issues that staff face at the College and details facets of staff members’ lives both at and outside the College. The staff issue, like all other issues, investigates problems...

Ada Moreno, a cook at Whitmans’, also cares for elderly people in their homes and cleans apartments. ANIAH PRICE/PHOTO EDITOR

Staff members balance multiple jobs

Danny Jin April 3, 2019

Ada Moreno, a cook at Whitmans’, also cares for elderly people in their homes and cleans apartments. ANIAH PRICE/PHOTO EDITOR One fifth of College staff who responded to the 2017 Williams Staff Committee...

Letter from the editor

Letter from the editor

Danny Jin February 13, 2019

Last week, we reported that Kimberly Love, assistant professor of English, and Kai Green ’07, assistant professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies, had canceled their spring semester courses....

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