Henry Hilton ’28 is an Arabic and economics major and from Saint Paul, Minn. He is an Executive Editor and the head of the Cartoons Section. He was previously a Sports Editor and before that served as a staff writer for the news section. Email: [email protected]
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) opened an investigation into Smith College on May 4 over its admission of transgender women.
Today, the web of steam tunnels crisscrossing the subterranean underbelly of the campus are heavily monitored with alarms and require CSS permission for entry. In the last 20th century, however, the tunnels were home to elaborate student escapades.
The remains of Ephraim Williams, the namesake of the College, have sat in the basement of Thompson Chapel since 1920. Yet Williams died 165 years before his body returned to Town. In 1920, Williams’ remains were returned during an extravagant commencement ceremony parade, but as a Record analysis of historical documents from Special Collections has revealed, some have speculated that the remains may not even be Williams’, or might be nothing more than a pile of dirt.
Wrestling finished ninth — the best performance in program history — at the Div. III NCAA Wrestling Championships in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, over the weekend. The team soared to a weekend of records, led...
When current head coach of men’s basketball Kevin App first arrived in Williamstown in 2008 to serve as an assistant coach, he was invited to dinner, along with the team’s coaching staff, by a man...
As the snow begins to fall and fall athletes enter the off-season, another set of statistics has been established for another year of fall sports at the College. This week, the Record analyzed data from the College’s Athletics website for six fall sports: field hockey, football, volleyball, men’s and women’s tennis, and women’s soccer. The data encompass all games from 2007 to 2025.
Each week, the Record (using a script in R) randomly selects a student at the College for our One in Two Thousand feature, excluding current Record board members. This week, Teanna Bucci ’26.5 spoke about pranks, limericks, and the supernatural. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Wrestling (0-4) opened their season against some of the most difficult competition they will face all year, traveling eight hours to George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, Va. for the chance to compete against four Div. I teams. In their quad meet against GMU (3-0), The Citadel Bulldogs (2-1), the Campbell University Camels (1-2), and the Bloomsburg University Huskies (3-3), the Ephs won nine individual matches but lost all four duels.
Just one month before his retirement, Quinn capped off his career by receiving the College’s Ephraim Williams Medal, presented by President Maud S. Mandel.
The Farley Inter-Regional Extravaganza track meet this past weekend brought together the track community together in the last whole team meet of the season.
During the 1980s, Budweiser and Miller competed to promote their respective products at the College. To accomplish this goal, they waged a war of soft power from the inside out, using the athletic word on campus to do so.
Women’s golf claimed third place out of thirteen teams at the Amherst Invitational this weekend. The competition — held at the Orchards Golf Club, in South Hadley, Mass. — was the team’s first of the season.
The College’s EphVentures programs have seen a decrease in applications for orientation leader positions, according to their student directors. The programs faced a 15 percent budget cut and were shortened by a day in 2023, which leaders said diminished their ability to run the programs effectively.
Men’s and women’s track participated in two meets over the weekend. A small group of runners took the track at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston University (BU). The rest of the team competed at the Tufts Stampede.
Katie Malanson began serving as the College’s inaugural director of Winter Study on Oct. 7, becoming the first College employee to exclusively manage Winter Study.
