Hadley Levenson ’29 is the Town News Editor from Manhattan, N.Y. She was previously a staff writer for News and is a prospective Political Science and Psychology major.
At yesterday’s annual Town Meeting, Williamstown residents voted to increase Williamstown Elementary School’s budget and fund a new skate park, among other items.
The Record sent its biannual approval ratings survey to 500 randomly selected students last week. Respondents were asked to indicate their approval, disapproval, or neutrality towards 27 campus entities, including Housing, Dining Services, the faculty, and the Record.
At this year’s Town meeting, residents will vote on 31 proposals related to infrastructure, school budgets, and local bylaws. The proposals, known as warrant articles, include standard provisions to...
As the Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to release further details of its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein, higher education institutions across the country have faced scrutiny over their ties to Epstein.
The College offered to purchase the “dirt lot,” a 1.27-acre Town-owned lot on 59 Water St. on April 15, with plans to build a replacement for the current Facilities Services building on Latham Street.
A series of antisemitic posts on the anonymous campus social media platform Yik Yak were reported to the College last Friday, Dean of the College Gretchen Long and Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leticia S.E. Haynes ’99 announced in an all-campus email.
Dining hall meals are a mouthful — and not just literally. Whether students are grabbing a plate of lava lava shrimp, a fungus among us burger, or a wet beef burrito, the names of menu items are often as intricate as the dishes themselves.
The College’s comprehensive fee, which encompasses tuition, housing, meals, and mandatory student fees, will total $95,960 for the 2026-27 academic year. This represents an increase of 5.7 percent from...
The College offered admission to 981 applicants on March 20 through the regular decision process. The total acceptance rate for the 2025-2026 admission cycle, including both early and regular decision, was 7.4 percent, the lowest acceptance rate ever recorded at the College.
The economics department has a longstanding gender imbalance among students, according to the department’s internal data. The department’s most recent report from 2023 revealed that, at the time, 36 percent of economics majors were female. According to members of the department, the number of female students has remained stagnant over the last decade. Faculty are aware of this trend and are working to increase the proportion of female economics majors.
The FabLab and Makerspace have exhausted their annual funding and closed for the remainder of the semester, laying off the 20 students who staffed the workshops part-time in late February. The Makerspace provides machines and other creative tools, such as 3D printing, laser cutting, and woodworking.
This spring, Campus Safety Services (CSS) will roll out its new Purple Shield initiative, Associate CSS Director and Director of Emergency Management Amalio Jusino wrote in an email to the campus community last Thursday. The program, which aims to standardize emergency preparedness on campus, relies on the national Standard Response Protocol created by the “I Love U Guys” Foundation.
Professor of Economics Lara Shore-Sheppard will serve a second term as dean of the faculty, President Maud S. Mandel announced in a Jan. 29 email to the College. Shore-Sheppard’s second term will begin on July 1, 2026, and continue through June 30, 2029.
A new urgent care facility operated by Berkshire Health Services opened on Adams Road in Williamstown in late December, following the closure of North Adams Urgent Care last August. The new facility addresses the need for health care in the rural community and provides a nearby option for College students.
The Record sent its biannual approval ratings survey to 500 randomly selected students last week. Respondents indicated their approval, disapproval, or neutrality towards 24 campus entities, including Dining Services, the faculty, and the Record.
The College’s endowment generated an 11.7 percent return for the 2025 fiscal year, resulting in a total market value of $3.93 billion. Chief Investment Officer Abigail Wattley ’05 confirmed the figure...
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly advanced and popular, the College’s Writing Center has developed a set of practices and policies for editing student writing that tutors suspect is AI-generated.
