Phoebe Pallesen ’27 is a prospective English and Chinese major from New York, N.Y. She is a managing editor. She previously served as a section editor for the features section, and before that, as a staff writer for features.
“This Week in Williams History” is a column that looks back at memorable moments in the College’s past through articles in the Record. This week in history, the Record covered Cap and Bells’ first musical, frustration with a restriction on women visiting dorms at night, an overstatement of the frequency of sex on campus, and a student panel discussion on queer life.
This semester, Professors Jim Shepard and John Kleiner taught their famed English course "Hollywood Film" one last time before returning to retirement.
Cass, founder and chief economist of right-wing think tank American Compass, discusses last Tuesday's election, the realignment of the GOP, and his time at the College.
The Record sat down with Mariët Westermann ’84, the new director and CEO of the Guggenheim, at her kitchen table in Williamstown to discuss her journey from the College to the one of the world’s most respected artistic institutions.
Employees of the College donated at least $81,488.45 to political organizations this past year, according to public data from the Federal Election Committee (FEC). Of the reported data, 99.5 percent,...
This week in history, the Record condemned hazing, the chemistry department hosted a party, Vista pushed for a Latino/a studies program, and admitted students visited the College.
If the tinted, paper glasses strewn across Lee Snack Bar tables, the recent buzz about “paths of totality,” and obscenely-early alarms didn’t alert you, on Monday, swaths of the United States experienced a total solar eclipse — an astronomical event in which the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, momentarily shielding the Sun’s light.
On March 9, 1874, it was 23 degrees below zero in Williamstown — but the cold did not deter Town residents from attending that year’s Town Meeting, where they voted to establish a public library....
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, Aarju Poudel ’27 discussed her hometown, dyeing her hair red, and her love for untranslatable words.
The annual Winter Carnival weekend is packed full of traditions that go back nearly a century. One, however, has been out of fashion for the last 50 years: the crowning of a “Winter Carnival Queen.”
“Dead Week” — the four-day classless lull between the end of Winter Study and the start of spring classes — is neither “dead” nor a week. Dozens of students flock to popular cities like Montreal and New York City to escape the empty interlude. But what about those who venture elsewhere, or stay put on campus?
This Winter Study, students offered not one, but two poker Free University courses, both centered on escaping the male-dominated poker landscape. The courses — “Poker Power: Flip the Odds in Your Favor” and “Poker Lessons for non cis men” — targeted a female and nonbinary audience.
Many members of the Williamstown community — students at the College included — eagerly await the monthly contra dancing extravaganza at First Congregational Church. Contra dance, a form of traditional social dance, is practiced in pockets across the world.
Many students book ride shares to and from their campuses for school breaks, but residents of the isolated Purple Valley are forced to rely on them more than most. Beth Johnson, a longtime ride-share driver in the Williamstown area, spoke with the Record about her years of experience driving College students to-and-fro.
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