Rebecca Tauber ’21 is a history and English major and Jewish studies concentrator from Lower Merion, Pa. She is a senior writer. She previously served as news editor, executive editor for communications and podcast and most recently as managing editor.
Three Williamstown Police Department (WPD) officers illegally searched the names of vocal WPD critics in Registry of Motor Vehicle records as accessed through the Criminal Justice Information System, Acting Police Chief Michael Ziemba told the Record today. He said that 20 people were searched in the few months before former chief Kyle Johnson resigned in December and Ziemba stepped in as acting chief.
Rebecca Tauber ’21 writes as a former varsity athlete about how athletes and the administration should embrace the anger in the wake of the Wood party and reckon with athletic culture and the privilege that comes with playing a varsity sport at Williams.
On Dec. 15, Williamstown Police Department (WPD) Sergeant Scott McGowan withdrew a lawsuit he filed this August against the Town of Williamstown, Town Manager Jason Hoch ’95 and former WPD Chief Kyle Johnson. The withdrawal of the lawsuit came immediately following Johnson’s resignation as police chief on Dec. 14.
The “You know you went to Williams College if…” Facebook group typically consists of alums posting pictures of College ephemera, children decked out in Williams gear and evocative purple and yellow...
On Tuesday, Nov. 17, two students and one staff member tested positive for COVID-19. The tests were the first positives since Oct. 28, and as of publication, bring the total number of student, faculty...
On-campus students, faculty and staff came together to honor Ronningen in a memorial service on Paresky lawn. (Rebecca Tauber/The Williams Record.)
Last Sunday, members of the College community came...
When a Junior Advisor (JA) moved back to campus in late August, they thought they had followed the College’s rules for the five- to seven-day in-room quarantine the College required each student to...
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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...
Last Wednesday and today at two extraordinary faculty meetings held on Zoom, President Maud S. Mandel and Dean of the College Marlene Sandstrom gave updates on next year’s academic calendar and faculty...
Despite uncertainty surrounding the next academic year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the yield of students admitted to the Class of 2024 was 46 percent, similar to previous years. The matriculating class’...
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At an extraordinary faculty meeting Wednesday, faculty overwhelmingly approved a motion put forward by the Committee on Educational Affairs (CEA) to temporarily adjust...
Members of the Class of 2020 have seen two United States presidents, three College presidents and two different forms of student government during their four years at the College. They’ve celebrated...
Graphic by Nigel Jaffe/The Williams Record.
In an all-community email sent yesterday, President Maud S. Mandel announced that the College would maintain a two-semester model for the upcoming academic...
Graphic by Nigel Jaffe/The Williams Record
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...
At the beginning of the switch to remote learning, the Record spoke with a variety of professors about their thoughts going into online classes. This week, we followed up with some of those professors...
The end of each semester typically brings members of the College community to Spencer Studio Art Building to see work produced by students in studio art classes. This semester’s move to remote learning...
By April 28, the day this photo was taken, Kim Brown, manager of mail and print services, had helped ship nearly 200 boxes to students. (Photo courtesy of Kim Brown.)
For Julie Fairchild, communications...
San Diego State University is one of the universities that will be holding most courses online in the fall, following the California State University system's announcement yesterday. (Photo courtesy of...
This chart, which spans four pages in a memo sent to faculty last week, considers each potential option for the fall semester through different lenses. (Photo from the academic continuity planning memo.)
The...
In recent weeks, Berkshire County, like the rest of Massachusetts, has seen a continued increase in COVID-19 cases, according to the state’s Department of Public Health (DPH). The figures below show...
Members of the class of 2020 will have to wait until at least next year to participate in postponed in-person commencement ceremonies. (Jeongyoon Han/The Williams Record)
Yesterday, the College announced...
Photo courtesy of Georgia Ganser.
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...
Students who applied to study away programs this upcoming fall have been advised by the Office of Study Away to register for Williams classes and housing in the coming weeks should programs be cancelled...
Some seniors took photos in cap and gown during the last week on campus in early March, anticipating that commencement might not occur in June. (Jeongyoon Han/The Williams Record)
The College announced...
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads throughout the world, the past few weeks have been unprecedented for the College. President Maud S. Mandel’s email on March 11 announcing the closure of the campus and...
In Other Ivory Towers is the Record’s look at colleges and universities outside the Purple Bubble. This week, we are covering other NESCAC schools’ grading policies in light of decisions...
Photo courtesy of Maddie Dekko.
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 to...
The College confirmed the first case of COVID-19 in the Williams community yesterday morning.
The student, who at the time of publication remains asymptomatic according to the College, had been studying...
The Williams-Mystic program, like the College’s campus in Williamstown and the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford, decided last week to send its students home and transition to remote learning in response...
The Williams-Exeter Programme in Oxford has told its students to leave Oxford and complete the final term online. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.)
The Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO)...
For the first time in over 50 years, the College has decided to disrupt normal operations mid-semester in light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. President of the College Maud S. Mandel announced in...
As the coronavirus epidemic continues to spread, international students at the College are experiencing the consequences of increasing travel restrictions. As of Tuesday, The Centers for Disease Control...
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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 ANDY MUNZER. Williamstown residents have been gathering to play darts since the 1980s as a way to brighten up dreary Berkshire winters.
Two dart boards hang on the wall at Water...
When Caroline Fairweather ’20 arrived at her study abroad program for spring semester last year, she had approximately fifty dollars in her checking account. Her program began on Jan. 2, a day before...
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Davis Collison '21 created a documentary about the Spruces Mobile Home park and its destruction in Hurricane Irene.
While community members in many Berkshire County towns,...
Kurt Tauber was a prominent member of the College’s activist community during his 33 years as a professor of political science. (Nigel Jaffe/The Williams Record)
Once I started writing for the Record,...
Last spring, the committee on appointments and promotions (CAP) approved the creation of two new tenure-line positions in Asian American studies (AAS), and the search to fill one of these positions in...
The men’s and women’s crew teams ended their season last weekend at Wormtown Chase in Worcester, Massachusetts and Head of the Fish in Saratoga Springs, New York, respectively. Highlights...
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...
A label has been added to contextualize the depictions of Native people in a mural in the Log. (Nicky Wu/The Williams Record)
Last month, the College hung an informational label beside one of the murals...
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...
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In 2017, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a law that included a tax on the returns from certain college and university endowments, of which the College’s endowment...
The window of Wheelan's car was broken by high-velocity potatoes. REBECCA TAUBER/DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR.
On Sunday morning, a Campus Safety and Security (CSS) officer who was patrolling Thompson parking...
Fall teams, such as men's soccer, complete preseason training in accordance with NCAA guidelines. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
For fall athletes, returning to school also means returning...
An increased number of faculty of color are going on temporary leave or departing from the College this year compared to recent years. These faculty cite multiple reasons for leaving, ranging from professional...
Stop & Shop workers across New England returned to work on Monday for the first time in 11 days, ending the strike that began on April 11. According to Skyhook, a location technology company, visits...
New England Stop & Shop workers went on strike on Thursday after months of tense negotiations with the grocery chain. Five United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) chapters, representing 31,000...
Stop & Shop releases “final offer” to workers threatening strike
Following weeks of tense negotiation, Stop & Shop updated its “final offer” to the five local unions that authorized...
Following the College’s March production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot,” the theatre department received a reprimand via email from Dramatists Play Service for...
Jeffrey Israel released a book yesterday on the interplay between resentment and popular culture. PHOTO COURTESY OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE.
Jeffrey Israel, assistant professor of religion and Jewish studies,...
Gym monitor Howard Garbarsky began working at the College while at studying at MCLA to write his screenplay, “The Atomic Voles.”
Most students’ interactions with Athletic Facility Monitor Howard...
United Food and Commercial Workers, which voted to authorize a strike, represents the North Adams Stop & Shop. NICHOLAS GOLDROSEN/MANAGING EDITOR
Hundreds of members of United Food and Commercial...
COURTESY OF KEITH FOREMAN In The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, witnesses ranging from Sigmund Freud to Pontius Pilate are called to testify on whether Judas Iscariot should go to heaven.
Last...
North Adams Stop & Shop workers will vote on Sunday to decide whether or not to authorize a strike.
United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1445, which represents some of the Stop...
Following recent discussion and coverage of the struggles of minority faculty and issues of retention at the College, the Record examined news surrounding this issue at other colleges and universities...
Departures of faculty of color in 2007 prompted the formation of the Faculty Staff Initiative (FSI), a grassroots group that examined the experiences of minority faculty and staff at the College. Led...
Two professors canceled their courses in the days leading up to the start of spring semester. In an email to students enrolled in her courses, Kimberly Love, assistant professor of English, cited...
The track and field teams, unable to access the Towne Field House, currently practice in Lansing Chapman Rink. Sabrine Brismeur/Photo Editor.
After discovering further hazardous materials in the Towne...
On Oct. 29, several members of the faculty sent out a petition calling for the College to adopt the Chicago Statement on Principles of Free Expression, originally released by the University of Chicago...
This week, the Record sent out its biannual approval ratings survey, which measures student views on a variety of campus institutions. Students could answer “approve,” “disapprove” or...
On Oct. 15, Williamstown community and Select Board members pushed back against student organization Reclaim Childhood’s requested closure of Hoxsey Street for their annual fundraiser, Halloween...
Affirmative action trial challenges Harvard’s admissions system
On Monday, Oct. 15, a trial began against Harvard regarding its affirmative action practices (“Michael Wang ’17 takes part in advocacy...
Last year, the Junior Advisor (JA) system underwent significant changes. Due to gradual decreases in both applications and in students accepting the position, the Junior Advisor Advisory Board (JAAB) changed...
Job action in local School District ends
On Sept. 26, Mount Greylock Regional School District Superintendent Kimberly Grady announced the end of the job action by teachers against the newly merged school...
On Sept. 7, the student body was sent an email containing an “unofficial resource guide” to life on campus. This guide, which was spearheaded by Eli Cytrynbaum ’20 and Katie Manning ’20 and included...
