Voting is the most profound act of civil participation for an American citizen. It actualizes American democracy to a degree that our country’s founders could have barely dreamt of. For many of us this is the first presidential election that we will be eligible to vote in. It’s imperative that we vote in the 2020 general election.
This summer, Black Lives Matter signs appeared in front of homes of all kinds, in Williamstown and out in the surrounding countryside. Judging by their numbers you’d expect Williamstown to have solved racism by now.
The way that we produce and consume energy is dangerously problematic. Evidence of climate change in Massachusetts is clear. Sea levels are rising, extreme weather events are occurring more frequently, and pollution-related respiratory problems are common, especially in vulnerable communities.
President Maud S. Mandel responded on Thursday to a list of demands sent by the incoming Junior Advisor (JA) class, promising affinity pods and further changes to the first year experience for JAs and...
In an all-campus email sent today, President Maud S. Mandel announced plans to adopt a revised version of the regular two-semester academic calendar for the 2020-21 academic year. Regardless of whether classes are in-person or remote, students will be required to take a minimum of three courses each semester rather than four. Winter Study will not take place in January 2021.
In an all-faculty meeting on Wednesday, President Maud S. Mandel announced that she is strongly considering adopting either a trimester or a three-semester model for the 2020-2021 academic calendar....
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced new Title IX regulations on Wednesday that would serve to strengthen the rights for students accused of sexual harassment and sexual assault on college...
A petition calling for the College to extend the appointments of junior non-tenure track faculty is circulating among the faculty, staff, students and alumni communities, as multiple committees convened by President of the College Maud S. Mandel assess the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the feasibility of reopening the College for the Fall 2020 semester.
Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 4:21 p.m.: President of the College Maud S. Mandel sends an email to the entire campus community, titled, “Update: Williams prevention and preparedness measures for coronavirus.”
At...
Kenneth Marshall ’20 (left) and Ben Hearon ’20 (right) have begun exploring the five different aspects of a pentathalon this year. (Photo courtesy of Benjamin Hearon and Kenneth Marshall.)
Benjamin...
Women’s basketball joined forces with several organizations on campus to shed light on the spike in sexual assault cases over Winter Study. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information.)
In addition to...
Men’s ice hockey (11-4-1, 8-2-0 NESCAC) shook off a sluggish start on Saturday in Bowdoin’s Watson Arena and proceeded to score the first five goals of the game to collect a 5-1 win over the Bowdoin...
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Overall: 14–5 | NESCAC: 3–2
Women’s basketball opened the season with 11 consecutive wins. Despite a few subsequent losses, the women bounced back on Jan. 25, defeating...
Nine different Ephs contributed in scoring to overcome a 14-point deficit against the Mammoths. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information.)
Men’s basketball (9–8, 2–2 NESCAC) defeated Amherst (11–6,...
(Photo courtesy of Sports Information.)
Team: Men's squash
Hometown: Rye, N.Y.
Residence: Spencer
Major: Economics & English
Snack bar order: Black bean burger
What do...
Many community members support turf installation, citing concerns over natural grass maintenance. (Photo courtesy of Mount Greylock Regional High School Athletics.)
In late September, the Mount Greylock...
The Clark Art Institute’s mission statement boasts that it is one of the only institutions in the world to serve as both “an art museum and a distinguished center for research and higher education,...
In addition to the usual versity and junior varsity sports, some Massachusetts high schools, including Mount Greylock Regional High School (MGRHS), are on the forefront of a new athletics program that...
The Council on Aging offers free fitness classes at the Harper Center for community members to stay active. (Sofie Jones/ The Williams Record.)
We all know how students stay active on campus: working...
Nov. 30 marked the 103-year anniversary of Images Cinema. Since its opening in 1916, Images has been a principal element of the Berkshires arts culture. While the film industry has certainly changed,...
Peter Matsumoto ’20.5, who started equestrian vaulting in third grade, won the 2011 national title with a Matrix-inspired move. (Photo Courtesy of Peter Matsumoto.)
When Peter Matsumoto ’20.5 was...
The two-time reigning national champion Ephs broke MIT's 14-game winning streak on Sunday. (Photo Courtesy of Sports Information.)
Down a goal with just over three minutes remaining in Sunday’s game,...
Jack McGovern ’21 joined the Oxford Universities Quidditch Club while studying abroad this year. (Photo Courtesy of Paul Watts.)
The Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford offers students the chance...
When they are not motivating their players on the field, court or rink, Eph coaches are busy working away in their office. Take a behind-the-scenes look at their spaces!
Kris Herman, softball
Coach...
Mia Lisette performed a stripped down, R&B influenced set. PHOTO BY SOPHIA SHIN
On Saturday evening, dozens of students filtered into the dimmed Currier Ballroom to watch four College bands perform...
(Zoe Bank/The Williams Record.)
The Record’s sports section has long published “Captain’s Corner” interviews, but this week, we are mixing it up with our inaugural “Coach’s Corner,” giving...
On Thursday, Ivorian American artist Marvin Touré visited campus to speak about his unique style and personal artistic growth in Lawrence Hall. Touré originally intended to study architecture at the...
John LaFarge’s “Hut in Moonlight, Iva, Savaii” (1890) is one of the works shown in Travels on Paper, a new exhibit at the Clark. PHOTO COURTESY OF CLARK ART INSTITUTE
I was a freshman in high...
PHOTO COURTESY OF IMDB Parasite (2019) explores class dynamics, reliance and disposable labor in an intricately crafted narrative subverting the commercial film sector.
Parasite is seemingly familiar....
Franny Choi, who will teach courses at the College in the spring, negotiates her intersecting identities and past activism through teaching and writing. ETHAN DINÇER/THE WILLIAMS RECORD
Franny...
Sarah Kelly ’20 recorded one shot in the game against Middlebury, bringing her season total to 17. (Photo Courtesy of Sports Information.)
No. 24 women’s soccer (9–5–2, 6–3–1 in the NESCAC)...
In the 1950s, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) coined the term “student-athlete” as part of a campaign to affirm that collegiate athletes were students first and foremost and, therefore,...
Returning women’s ice hockey goalie Chloe Heitling ’22 had 532 saves in her 24 games played last season. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information.)
With snow now on the ground in the Purple Valley,...
“If your pencil stops moving, the room is gonna blow up. Just keep writing,” Peter Elbow ’57 said, describing the practice of “freewriting.”
Elbow pioneered freewriting in the early...
It wasn’t hard to pick out the sound of someone singing as I made my way through the empty halls of Spencer Art Building. Poking my head into the printmaking studio, I found Studio Art Assistant...
Lt. Col. Cook ’98 built a partnership with the Los Angeles Rams and USC Trojans to incorporate film into Marine training. (Photos courtesy of the Hoover Institution and Sporttechie.com.)
Lt. Col....
Editor’s note: This is part of a new occasional sports column in the Record, called “Club Hub.” In this column, we will be publishing stories from those who compete in the College's club sports,...
WILLIAM NEWTON/THE WILLIAMS RECORD. Hugo Peláez Goycochea led a workshop for students in cartonería, a traditional Mexican papier-mâché art art.
“La muerte es absolutamente democrática,”...
Last Friday, Museum Town began showing at Images. While the College community may be familiar with the film's focus, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), many are not familiar with...
On Saturday night, the Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI) company, an internationally renowned collective founded by theater directors Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki, performed their new...
Suiyi Tang ’20 read from her novel American Symphony yesterday at a launch event hosted by the Williams Bookstore. (Danny Jin/The Williams Record).
Among all the papers, GLOW posts and take-homes...
Frank Stola ’21 earned NESCAC Special Teams Player of the Week on Oct. 26, which marks his third NESCAC honor this season. (Photo Courtesy of Sports Information.)
In the fall of 2016, football failed...
Nick Boardman ’22 scored a goal in the 97th minute last Wednesday, securing the win against Hamilton. (Photo Courtesy of Grace Byers.)
Men’s soccer (7-3-5, 5-2-2 NESCAC) clinched a win against...
Volleyball (14–8, 5–3 NESCAC) fell to Wesleyan (18–2, 8–1 NESCAC) in three sets on Friday but notched wins over Connecticut College (7–14, 0–9 NESCAC) in a 3-0 game and Smith (6–2) in...
PHOTOS COURTESY OF BERKSHIRE EAGLE Prahlad Singh Tipanya, who performed at the College last Wednesday, emphasized the importance of doing good deeds and finding inner peace.
On Wednesday, Oct. 23,...
PHOTO COURTESY OF WILLIAMS EVENTS Kelema Moses approaches urban planning with an interdisciplinary lens accounting for space, Indigenous histories and the environment.
Kelema Lee Moses, assistant...
PHOTO COURTESY OF MIKE GLIER Mike Glier ’ 76 recently returned from his residency in Somerset, UK.
Mike Glier ’76, an accomplished artist, alum, father and professor of studio art at the...
PHOTO COURTESY OF NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Kristen Anderson-Lopez ’94 and her husband Robert Lopez won the Best Original Song Academy Award for “Let It Go,” from the Frozen soundtrack.
With Frozen...
Jim Dunn ’10, dressed as the purple cow, appeared in a 2010 commercial celebrating Lee Corso of ESPN’s College Gameday. (Scott Clark/ESPN.)
In 2007, ESPN's College Gameday came to campus for the...
PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREA MOHIN/NEW YORK TIMES The New York City ballet dancers performed an archival version of George Balanchine’s ballet Apollo onFriday. Balanchine’s technique includes fast jumps...
Gaston Aime ’23, Matias Enriquez ’23 and Yuichi Fukunaga ’23 prepare ramen for a club meeting. (Photo courtesy of @williamschessboxing.)
This fall, Gaston Aime ’23 and Matias Enriquez ’23...
Men’s crew finished 12th out of 38 in the collegiate 8+ race with a time of 14:57.1, and 18th out of 39 in the club 8+ race with 15:38.6 before a one-minute penalty placed them in 30th. (Photo courtesy...
Women’s crew’s collegiate eight boat took 12th place in 17:25.3, requalifying the boat for next year. (Photo courtesy of Kurt Urdang.)
The Head of the Charles Regatta is known for its challenging...
PHOTO COURTESY OF IMAGES One Cut of the Dead, a special screening hosted by Images, provides a meta-take on the horror genre by using tropes and cliches.
Last weekend, Images showed One Cut...
It took no more than a glance to realize that the National Arab Orchestra (NAO) bears little resemblance to the orchestras that usually draw crowds of locals to Brooks Rogers Recital Hall.
Women's basketball is one of the few surviving JV teams on campus, following the cancellation of the majority of teams in the last two decades. Photo courtesy of Williams Athletics.
When Athletic...
The women are currently second in the NESCAC standings, behind undefeated Middlebury. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
No. 11 field hockey (9–1, 6–1 in the NESCAC) brought its winning streak...
The first-seeded duo of Frelinghuysen and Taylor won amongst a field of 32 doubles pairs from 20 colleges in New England. Photo courtesy of Michael Medvedev.
On Sept. 29, men’s tennis players Peter...
PHOTO COURTESY OF ANNA BRUCE Architectural Design II built a structure between Hopkins and Schapiro designed by Novera Momo ’21.
If you walked on the path between Hopkins and Schapiro last...
Anthony Pernell-McGee is the new director of inclusive career exploration at the Career Center. (Ethan Dinçer/The Williams Record)
“It’s like a blank canvas where I’m able to create and paint,”...
HANNAH TAGER /THE WILLIAMS RECORD The Guest House at Field Farm, an inn in Williamstown, combines Bauhaus design and furniture with modernist, and even brutalist, architecture.
The unassuming entrance...
(Nicky Wu/ The Williams Record)
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...
Defender Andrew Mathew ’20 scored the only goal in the second half for the Ephs against the Thoroughbreds. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
Men’s soccer (3–3–3, 2–2–2 in the NESCAC)...
PHOTO COURTESY OF WCMA.Kenturah Davis, an artist working between Los Angeles, New Haven and Accra, Ghana, investigates the meaning of text and language in art.
The first slide of Kenturah Davis’...
Mia Herring-Sampong ’20 recently performed at WCFM’s Live @ the Rectory series. She cites Astrud Gilberto and Etta James as some influences. (Ethan Dincer/The Williams Record).
Mia Herring-Sampong...
SPOOKYTOOTH and Everything is Terrible! create an array of bizarre content and are planning on creating a pyramid of “Jerrys” (Jerry MacGuire VHS tapes) in the desert. (Photo courtesy of Everything...
The men’s rugby club team is 1–2 this season after beating Union but falling to Siena and Amherst. (Rebecca Tauber/The Williams Record.)
Last Saturday, three Eph teams stared down the Amherst Mammoths...
Annie Lennox: ‘Now I Let You Go…’ features objects from the Grammy-winning performer’s personal life. (Photo courtesy of MASS MoCA.)
Solo exhibitions often bear the title of their artist,...
Kris Dufour (right), who has hosted the Williams College Football Show for 15 years, welcomes head coach Mark Raymond to discuss game highlights.(Photo Courtesy of WilliNet.)
Hidden away behind the...
Jake Jacobson ’82 uses a paramobile to golf. The machine transitions him safely from seated to standing and supports him as he takes a swing. (Richard Gregory/Newstimes.)
Former professional golfer...
On Friday, volleyball (8–3, 1–0 in the NESCAC) defeated Trinity (4–4, 0–1 in the NESCAC) in three sets and fell to Roger Williams the next day in a tough five-set match.
In the first set against...
Around 200 students have volunteered at the organic-practicing Peace Valley Farm in Williamstown since the early 1990s. (Photo courtesy of Marco Vallejos.)
When Marco Vallejos ’20 walks into breakfast...
Emma Ticknor ’20 scored her third goal of the season during Saturday's game against St. John Fisher, securing a 4-0 victory. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information.)
Field hockey (4–1, 2–1 NESCAC)...
PHOTO COURTESY OF WCMANeil Leonard’s sound art installation Sonance for the Precession draws from ancient traditions of music. It plays every evening in Currier Quad.
Students may have already noticed...
PHOTO COURTESY OF WILLIAMS INN. The gallery-like space outside the Williams Inn ballroom features Laylah Ali's portraits “Nordic Types.” The Inn includes work by five professors.
“Hotel...
IMAGE COURTESY OF QUADIO MEDIA. “Make music, make friends” is the motto at Quadio (pronounced Quah-dee-oh), a new social platform for musicians created by Joe Welch ’18.
Music sharing platforms...
Verdell previously served as men’s basketball assistant coach at Bates. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
This past summer, Tommy Verdell was named associate athletic director for inclusion and...
Mackenzie Keyes, assistant coach of softball, has been at the College for three years and received the Tara VanDerveer Fund grant from the Woman’s Sports Foundation last week. Photos courtesy of Sports...
Photo courtesy of Tali Natter.
Lour Yasin ’23 is an international musician from Palestine. A guitarist, singer and composer, Lour mixes Arabic and English as well as Eastern and Western music styles.
How...
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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...
PHOTO COURTESY OF EDDY VARELA. Adrian Oxley ’20 performs with Homebrew in 2017. Oxley opens for Kari Faux this Saturday.
Adrian Oxley ’20 recalls Mano Sundaresan ’19 once saying, “Adrian is...
PHOTO COURTESY OF WCMA/WOMAN’S BUILDING RECORDS AT GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE. Performance artist Judith F. Baca, whose performance Vanity Table is documented above, is one of the artists featured in...
Joey Lye ’09, a former softball shortstop and women's hockey captain at the College, will make her first Olympics appearance next summer, after 10 years of professional play. Photos courtesy of Sports...
Varsity captains welcomed keynote speaker Timothy Alexander during their annual training. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
Before Eph athletics kicked into full gear this fall, 85 student...
The field hockey team welcomed 14 first-year players this fall, including Emily Batchelor ’23 (right). PHOTO COURTESY OF SPORTS INFORMATION
As the excitement of move-in and First Days begins to...
PHOTO COURTESY OF STEPHENWINTER.ME. Visiting Lecturer in Art Stephen Winter will bring experiences from the art world into the classroom.
Visiting Lecturer in Art Stephen Winter landed in New York...
Men’s crew claimed a victory on Saturday after all four boats earned medals. The 4V and 3V won silver, and the 2V and 1V earned bronze. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
On Saturday, men’s...
Art, left, guided Kevin Counihan in the Boston Marathon in 2011. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
On a brisk Sunday morning in November of 2013, water bottles, warm-up jackets and nervous excitement...
Women’s crew finished third in the New England Rowing Championships at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester on Saturday. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD
The men competed...
Softball (33–5, 12–0 in the NESCAC) fell 3-2 to Tufts on Sunday in the final game of the NESCAC Championship. The loss ended the Ephs’ three-year run as conference champions and their record-breaking...
Men’s lacrosse (15–3 overall, 8–2 in the NESCAC) lost to Tufts 17-16 after overtime in Sunday’s NESCAC championship game. The men advanced to the tournament final for the first time since 2008,...
EMMA TENBARGE ’19
WOMEN'S LACROSSE
Peapack, N.J.
Emma TenBarge ’19 was named to the All-NESCAC Second Team last week, after a record-breaking final season for the Ephs. TenBarge, who...
Baseball (23–9, 7–5 in the NESCAC) traveled to Wesleyan on Saturday for the final two games of its regular season. After a dominant 6-1 victory over the Cardinals at Cole Field on Friday, the Ephs...
Since 1955, the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF) has brought classic plays with an innovative twist to the Berkshires every summer.
WTF was created in 1954 when Ralph Renzi ’49, the College’s...
The women secured their 26th conference title in program history on Saturday after finishing 19.5 points ahead of runner-up Middlebury. Photo courtesy of Williams Track and Field.
The weather was...
