With a blanket of snow covering campus, the Record’s features editors put together a list of their favorite cozy places on campus to sit back and enjoy the winter from inside.
Joel Nicholas ’23 composes electronic music from his studio at home.
“I picked up music by ear, pretty much,” student musician and composer Joel Nicholas ’23 said. “In my old house in Rochester...
As future chief of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, located in Louisiana, Devon Parfait ’22 regularly contemplates problems facing his tribal community such as coastal land...
Every December, the Williamstown Holiday Walk ushers in the holiday season with a wide variety of events, which last year ranged from a tag sale to a screening of Elf. The centerpiece of it all, and my...
Having written the book pre-pandemic, Professor of English Anjuli Raza Kolb said that it is suddenly about "the thing that's happening all around us." (Photo courtesy of Anjuli Raza Kolb.)
Even before...
Emily Tibbetts ’20 and Eliza Bower ’20 of Williams for Williamstown (W4W) deliver food from the Purple Pub in Williamstown to Berkshire Medical Center (BMC) in Pittsfield. (Photo courtesy of Eliza...
Photo courtesy of Raquel Livingston.
Each week, we randomly select a unix from a list of all current students at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature. As long as the owner of a selected...
“This Week in Williams History” is a column dedicated to looking back at memorable moments in the College’s past through articles in the Record. This week in history, three guests visited the College:...
Masked musicians perform six feet apart while unmasked musicians perform behind shields, 15 feet apart. (Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Miller.)
When asked what I/O stands for, violist and pianist Rebecca...
Antony Chen ’24, who has millions of TikTok followers, makes videos in his Mission single. (Taryn McLaughlin/The Williams Record.)
Millions of people around the world have seen TikTok content creator...
Poster courtesy of Nicolle Mac Williams ’21.5.
Tonight, the theatre department will present Radio Dramas, a series of short pre-recorded radio plays selected from Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days / 365...
Assistant Professor of History Christine DeLucia discussed the local history of the Stockbridge-Munsee people, and how the town engages with this history, at a Zoom panel last Thursday. (Kiara Royer/The...
Chief Communications Officer Jim Reische works in partnership with many senior staff members to craft emails and other communications. (Taryn McLaughlin/The Williams Record)
With COVID-19 changing...
Brittany Andrade, a seven-year U.S. Army veteran, attended the Warrior-Scholar Project's virtual boot camp at Williams this summer before enrolling at Vassar College. (Photo courtesy of the Warrior-Scholar...
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Check in with your breath right now.
Are you breathing deeply, fully?
Or are you breathing shallowly, perhaps even holding your breath?
The latter might point...
“I’m an immigrant myself,” María Román ’22 said. “I lived in Colombia for 11 years and then I moved here, and my family has had to go through the USCIS process.”
Román is a coordinator...
Hazell’s Hot Dog Stand is run by soon-to-be-married couple CJ Hazell and Brittany Lillie, both dining services workers at the College. (Tina Zheng/The Williams Record.)
On a warm fall day on Spring...
Affinity groups have turned to game nights, Zoom discussions, social media and more to maintain community under campus restrictions. (Rachel Buccalo/The Williams Record)
Williams students have found...
On Monday, Oct. 26, the Record sent out an anonymous survey to the entire student body asking questions about the U.S. presidential election. The results indicate overwhelming disapproval of President...
Visiting Professor of Political Science Elizabeth Wellman studies the intersection of international migration and electoral politics. (Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Wellman.)
“Senegal has 750 polling...
Photo courtesy of Francesca D’Arista.
Each week, we randomly select a unix from a list of all current students at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature. As long as the owner of a selected...
A staff member has been sent a hateful letter at their home targeting them based on their race and sexual orientation, President Maud S. Mandel announced tonight in an all-campus email.
The email...
Lea Obermüller ’24 (right) is enrolled remotely from Munich, Germany — six hours ahead of EDT. “Engagement with the community is a bit difficult because most of the activities happen during my...
As the fall semester approached, Nathan Thimothe ’22 and Gavin Li ’22 saw an inefficiency in the College’s “COVID-19 dashboard” — and with it, an opportunity. The statistics on...
Varsity teams will not compete this winter, President Maud S. Mandel and Athletic Director Lisa Melendy announced in an all-campus email this afternoon, half an hour after the presidents of the 11 NESCAC...
The Mountain Day T-shirt, designed by Kristen Chou ’23, shows a mask above the mountains. (Taryn McLaughlin/The Williams Record)
“It’s pretty straightforward,” Williams Outing Club (WOC) Director...
Professor of Biology Steven Swoap brought his dog, Daisy, with him to Oxford. (Virginia Ontiveros/The Williams Record)
Daisy, Professor of Biology Steven Swoap’s beautiful Goldendoodle, is 34 inches...
During the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders of COVID-19’s first wave in the spring of 2020, a distinct trend spread among college students quarantined at home: building virtual campuses on Minecraft...
Beginning Oct. 5, students will be able to travel for limited purposes in the zone indicated on this map, which Dean of the College Marlene Sandstrom linked to in her all-campus email. (Screenshot by...
Brian Hirshman ’06 revealed the true story behind the 'B+' on Amherst College's football field. (Photo courtesy of Brian Hirshman.)
In the digital nooks and crannies of Willipedia, one name keeps...
Frosh Quad entries in Sage and Williams Halls are now organized by floor. (Taryn McLaughlin/The Williams Record)
Decades ago, first-year students lived in Morgan while upper-classmen lived in Mission;...
A meme in the “Williams memes for sun-dappled tweens” Facebook group discusses the College’s sudden profusion of finance clubs. (Meme courtesy of Onder Kilinc ’23.)
A post in the “Williams...
Each week, we randomly select a unix from a list of all current students at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature. As long as the owner of a selected unix is willing to be interviewed and is...
In a normal year, only one or two Junior Advisors (JAs) choose to step down from their role after accepting it. But due to campus restrictions and the option to study remotely or take time off, eight...
(Irene Loewenson/The Williams Record)
Each week, we randomly select a unix from a list of all current students at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature. As long as the owner of a selected...
Weeks following a tweet from University of Pennsylvania Professor Anthea Butler on Aug. 26 reading “I would be down as a professor to follow the NBA and Strike for a few days to protest police violence...
As the College prepares for an in-person fall semester, a large majority of Junior Advisors (JAs) is pressing the College administration to implement changes to the entry system for the 2020-21 academic...
With the College’s decision to welcome students back for an in-person but socially distanced fall semester will inevitably come changes to first-year student traditions, including EphVentures, the entry...
(Graphic by Nigel Jaffe/The Williams Record.)
Though students have been invited back to Williamstown for the fall semester, the campus that awaits them will be dramatically different from the one they...
After more than two weeks of pressure from students, alums and other members of the College community, President Maud S. Mandel released on Friday an outline of actionable steps the College will take...
Arthur Judson Prize in Music:
Yeojin Choi, Hannah Gruendemann, and Tiffany Tien
Arthur Kaufmann, Class of 1899, Prize in English:
Calen Firedancing
Bruce Sanderson, Class of 1956, Prize in...
As I share into this space, I do so with trepidation. My hesitancy is not from the fear of saying the wrong thing, but from the feeling that I am unsure of my right to say much of anything...
Giebien Na has taken five courses per semester since his sophomore year.(Photo courtesy of Giebien Na, taken by Shaheen Currimjee.)
Giebien Na ’20 did not expect to graduate as the first-ever quadruple...
As the College works to cut costs to weather the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Committee on Appointments and Promotions (CAP) has been discussing sabbaticals, hiring, tenure decisions...
Graphic by Nigel Jaffe/The Williams Record
Abby Shen ’24 was disappointed when Previews, the on-campus program for admitted students, was made virtual. And she was disappointed when her high school...
When Brian Wecht ’97 lost his high school class ring while living in Gladden his junior year, he didn’t think much of it. The ring was bulky and ornately carved, with a hefty green gemstone embedded...
“I didn’t want to just listen to the music and be amazed by it. I wanted to create it for myself,” said Emily Ham ’22, a mezzo-soprano who takes voice lessons, attends the opera workshop...
Professor of Economics Sara LaLumia (top left) ran a half-marathon in Williamstown for the recent Williams for Williamstown fun run. In Punta Gorda, Fla., Marshall Lapidus ’60 (top right) speed-walked...
Professor of Theatre Amy Holzapfel now works on completing her book manuscript from home.(Photo courtesy of Amy Holzapfel.)
Through all of her 28 years at the College, Professor of Political Science...
(Graphic by Nigel Jaffe/The Williams Record)
President Maud S. Mandel and several of her senior staff held an open phone call for Williams families on Monday to provide information about the College’s...
Zia Saylor '23 and Mohammad Faizaan '23 go on virtual dates through the online gaming site Club Penguin. (Photo courtesy of Mohammad Faizaan.)
Since the campus closure, many student couples have had...
On Sunday, JAAB hosted a webinar where they discussed the algorithm used to create JA co-groups.(Nigel Jaffe/The Williams Record)
At this point in the school year, Junior Advisors (JAs) to the next...
(Photo courtesy of Assistant Professor of Physics Charlie Doret '02.)(Photo courtesy of Artist-in-Residence in Dance Erica Dankmeyer '91.)(Photo courtesy of Assistant Professor of Biology David Loehlin.)(Photo...
With less than a month until classes end, students may be wondering how they’ll pass the time without lectures to fast-forward through and Zoom seminars to attend. If you’re one of them, you’re...
(Photo courtesy of Will McCormick.)
We randomly select unixes from a list of all current students at the College for our weekly One in Two Thousand. So long as the owner of a selected unix is willing...
Kirstin Mapes ’21, formerly a member of the Class of 2020, will return for the Ephs next year after withdrawing from the remainder of her classes this spring. (Photo courtesy of Williams Sports Information.)
Ever...
Storytime has continued to offer ways for community members to share stories, including through a weekly virtual event held on Zoom. (Drawing by Matthew Roychowdhury ’21.)
The Storytime talk given...
The psychology department will join Division III starting in the fall of 2021. (Photo courtesy of Shaheen Currimjee '20).
The psychology department will change its curricular affiliation from Division...
Although the Clark Art Institute has temporarily closed, its 140-acre campus remains open. (Alice Qu/The Williams Record)
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and the Clark Art...
In the weeks since the College transitioned to online learning, members of the College community scattered across the globe have continued to attend weekly meditation, services and Passover seders —...
A series of emails sent out by the College over the past week has detailed further plans for how the College will adjust to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The first email, sent on April 9 by Provost...
Art supplies were mailed to all students in Worldbuilding for Theatre (Photo courtesy of Caroline Fairweather ’20).
“It’s like Christmas, but I’m stuck in my house and my degree got cut short,”...
In light of the disruptions to academic life posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, untenured faculty now have the option to defer their reappointment or tenure review process by one year. The choice has been...
(Drawing courtesy of Matthew Roychowdhury '21.)
Whether we realize it or not, we are all currently living through a potentially transformational historical event. While it is difficult to gauge the...
Dr. Richard Besser '81 worked as the acting director of the CDC in 2009.(Photo courtesy of Richard Besser.)
Dr. Richard Besser ’81 said he met his wife during his “first outbreak,” a...
Students and faculty have made the transition to remote learning in the wake of the closure of campuses across the country. (Alice Qu/The Williams Record)
Classes resumed remotely on Monday, plunging...
CJ Salapare ’20, standing in Tempelhofer Field in Berlin, Germany. (Photo courtesy of Kimberly Yu.)
There is something in a nationwide quarantine that, for many Americans, reconfigures their collective...
The main quad at Amherst. Students have called for their school to take action in the wake of a racist incident involving members of the men’s lacrosse team. (Photo courtesy of David Emmerman/Wikimedia...
Gibson, donning a purple and yellow tie and a Class of 1942 pin, celebrated his 75th Reunion at the College in 2017. (Photo courtesy of Alumni Relations.)
John M. Gibson ’42, a retired central Pennsylvania...
Schlesinger in concert in 2006. In addition to founding the power pop band Fountains of Wayne with a Williams classmate, Schlesinger wrote songs for a variety of artists, movies, TV shows and theatrical...
Just hours had passed since the deadline
for most students to pack up their belongings and leave campus when Nate Orluk
’22 took to the student group chat titled “the greatest food in the world,”
which...
Construction on the North Science Building project, along with the Fort Bradshaw project, has been suspended. One worker on the project had told iBerkshires.com that other workers had been exposed to...
Beginning April 6,
Integrative Wellbeing Services (IWS) will provide remote transition planning
sessions in which students can work with therapists to assess their current or
anticipated need for mental...
The libraries have ceased the majority of their in-person activity, including the services that had allowed users to request books for pickup. (Kevin Zhang Yang/The Williams Record)
Sawyer and Schow...
The new virtual tour is one of several ways the Office of Admission is attempting to make up for the cancelation of Previews, the on-campus program for admitted students. (Screenshot from the Office...
While hundreds of students stood on the Paresky steps and
screamed to express their intense emotions after the College announced its
switch to online learning due to COVID-19, many students were preoccupied...
NIGEL JAFFE/THE WILLIAMS RECORDScott and Bernice Lewis met in Arizona, and have taken a group of students to the Grand Canyon every year since 1994.
We’ve all heard the famous statistic: since the...
“I feel like a lot of people think that the only places that exist in real life are New York, Massachusetts and California,” said Maximillian Peters ’23, one of the two current Ephs from South Dakota....
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We randomly select unixes from a list of all current students at the College for our weekly One in Two Thousand. So long as the owner of a selected unix is on campus,...
Julie Henderson announces the nerd bell in Sawyer library at 2:30 a.m. (Jackson Hartigan/The Williams Record)
A blaring voice closes the library at 2:30 a.m. every weeknight and at 10 p.m. every Friday...
RUSSELL BLAKEY/THE WILLIAMS RECORD A taxidermy shelf on the fourth floor of the biology building is home to pufferfish and other specimens.
Locked in a cabinet on the top floor of Thompson Biology...
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Each week, we randomly select a unix from a list of all current students at the College. So long as the owner of the selected unix is on campus, willing to be interviewed...
Professor of History Jessica Chapman said she plans to return to Kenya in May. (Zoe Bank/The Williams Record)
For decades, St. Patrick’s High School has graduated students who have broken world records...
KRISTEN BAYRAKDARIAN/THE WILLIAMS RECORD Mission’s Mardi Gras-themed dinner last week featured Southern cuisines such as gumbo and jambalaya.
This past Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras, Mission...
PHOTO COURTESY OF MEREDITH WOLF
The Co-Star app provides a daily horoscope and star chart for users.
A good friend of Ana Sofia Roldan ’23 called her without warning one night during fall semester....
PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREW QUINN.Andrew Quinn ’13 has worked with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as a speechwriter for the past two years.
Andrew Quinn ’13 did not plan on becoming a...
RUSSELL BLAKEY/THE WILLIAMS RECORD Podcasters Onder Kilinc ’23 and Harun Curak ’23 pose in their entry.
Three weeks ago, Harun Curak ’23 and Onder Kilinc ’23 launched Cultures of Williams,...
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Each week, we randomly select a unix from a list of all current students at the College. So long as the owner of the selected unix is on campus, willing to be interviewed...
DAVID SHAKIROV/THE WILLIAMS RECORDAt Renee’s, the corned beef hash was too much for a football player.
Nestled among North Adams’ backroads behind Route 2, Renee’s Diner offers unpretentious...
BELLAMY RICHARDSON/THE WILLIAMS RECORDNoah Savage ’21, founder of the Cult, draws a rune using charcoal from the club’s first meeting.
A new club at the College that calls itself “the Cult”...
STEPHANIE TENG/THE WILLIAMS RECORDStudents who call themselves Chapel Dwellers unwind in the warmth of Thompson Chapel’s basement.
Warmth greets anyone who enters the basement in Thompson Memorial...
PHOTO COURTESY OF EARTH CAPS.Justin Adams ’22 models a rhino hat by Earth Caps, a student-run business.
Peter Frelinghuysen ’22 and Michael “Misha” Medvedev ’22 have been friends since they...
TAI HENRICHS/The Williams RecordGrant Gattuso, Will Titus and Jackson Anderson have attended firefighting trainings since January.
Jackson Anderson ’23, Grant Gattuso ’23 and Will Titus ’23 lie...
PHOTO COURTESY OF LAUREN HEUER.At a dinner held by new club Williams Appreciates Staff, Ryan Young ’22 addressed staff members.
Lauren Heuer ’20 and Katherine Mahoney ’20 founded Williams Appreciates...
ZOE BANK/THE WILLIAMS RECORDCohen received a $79,585 grant last April for her research in geosciences.
How did life begin on Earth? Geoscientists have long used the theory of evolution to gain greater...
I have been thinking a lot about Kobe Bryant’s passing on Sunday and the responses it has garnered on social media and in the news. I think it is important that we remember Bryant’s impressive accomplishments...
