Daisy, a product of GIANTmicrobes™, was the absolute star of Corridor Soccer games. We may have kicked her out of the door a few times, but just a few. (Graphic courtesy of Allyse Pratt ’22.)
The...
The College recently reopened the pool, with COVID restrictions. (Michael Gibson-Prugh/The Williams Record)
When I received the email on Nov. 4 that the College was going to reopen up the swimming...
Women’s hockey has been using synthetic ice due to ventilation issues with their normal ice rink. (Photo courtesy of Amanda Lackmann ’24.)
A year ago today, the Chandler Athletic Center was bustling...
Editor’s note: This article contains images and descriptions of anti-Black racist and violent language and imagery.
A dispatcher with the Williamstown Police Department (WPD) resigned on Thursday...
Steven Miller, Professor of Mathematics, is widely known to be a baseball fanatic, but few are aware of his involvement in sabermetrics research. (Photo courtesy of Steven Miller.)
Anyone who has ever...
Phillips (top center) attends a basketball game between the New York Knicks and the Indianapolis Pacers along with author John Green (top right), a long-time friend of Phillips who shares his love for...
Tree branches bow under the weight of the first snow, and the sun rises and sets early over stinging, frozen air — winter is coming, but members of the climbing club still find themselves behind Mission...
President Maud S. Mandel and Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leticia S. E. Haynes ’99 informed the community in an email Friday that a staff member at the College had...
Cider donuts, apple cider, casual hikes with friends — for most people, Mountain Day is a time for procrastinating on homework and enjoying the natural beauty of a Williamstown fall. However, for a...
Selected indoor athletic facilities reopened on Friday to receive small groups of students under strict public health measures, as announced by an all-campus email from the COVID-19 Operations and Business...
The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is promoting voter registration among student-athletes through digital campaigns as part of a NESCAC challenge. The image above was designed by programming committee...
Pokémon Go, an augmented reality game, hit a new peak of popularity among students on campus amid the pandemic. (Stephanie Teng/The Williams Record)
Tap. Tap. Tap. This was the sound that broke...
In past years, club water polo trained and competed in the Samuelson-Muir pool; this fall, the team dove into the Hoosic in search of a place to bond. (Photo courtesy of Galen Cassidy ’22.)
Anyone...
Mike Greenman ’18 worked in the NBA bubble over the summer preparing the locker rooms and helping players warm up before games. (Photo courtesy of Mike Greenman.)
Mike Greenman ’18 had just finished...
The weight tent is one of the many new outdoor facilities open to the general student body, offering more options for non-athletes to keep fit. (Tina Zheng/The Williams Record)
It is always a race...
A Wednesday night of wistful longing--Blue-black in Autumnal bliss.Here you hear a voice of calling"come play chess!", and that is this:Chess club tonight from 9 -- 10:30 @ Eco cafe, everyone welcome,...
Victoria Laino ’21.5, a midfielder on women’s soccer, opted to take time off and play in the highest division of women’s soccer in Switzerland instead. (Photo courtesy of Victoria Laino.)
When...
After a summer of deliberation, James Hemmer ’24, left, and Sunny Hu ’24, right, decided to join their respective teams on campus this fall, while many other first-year student-athletes opted to...
On Sept. 18, the newly renamed PC Gaming Club launched their Minecraft server as part of their expansion effort. (Photo courtesy of Angela Gui ’24.)
The coronavirus pandemic may have shut down the...
With the campus fitness center closed, staff have moved exercise equipment to a tent next to Farley-Lamb Field so that teams can complete their usual lift workouts safely outside. (Rebecca Tauber/Williams...
In the “Fitness in Quarantine” videos, members of the physical education department demonstrate workouts that students can do in dorm rooms. (Videos courtesy of Williams College. Screenshots...
Maple Terrace, the motel on Route 2, was fortunate for the summer to have an outdoor pool, left, on its expansive grounds after reopening in June. (Ben Platt/Williams Record)
The following is the final...
The following is the third part of a four-part series on how small businesses, cultural institutions and local government in the Purple Valley responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in spring and summer 2020....
The Clark Art Institute began unveiling its first-ever outdoor exhibition over the summer, with large-scale works from six contemporary artists displayed across its 140-acre campus. (Stephanie Teng/Williams...
Nature’s Closet co-owners Beth McLean, left, and Amy Jeschawitz, right, were photographed in April for the Front Steps Project, a nationwide fundraising effort that the Office of Human Resources participated...
The Center for Development Economics (CDE) will defer admissions for its incoming class of students to the 2021-22 academic year, while the Graduate Program in the History of Art will proceed with a combination...
The physical education and athletics department convene to deliver an outline of the College’s athletics reopening policy for next fall. (Photo courtesy of Williams College on Youtube.)
As the College...
With less than two months until the fall semester, students and faculty are preparing for a mixture of in-person and remote classes. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.)
In the weeks preceding the...
In response to an anonymous Record survey sent to the entire student body following President Maud S. Mandel’s email last week about reopening campus in the fall, 66 percent of the 685 students who...
In my intro course on blackness and mass incarceration, I ask my mostly seventeen and eighteen-year-old students how they would live their lives differently if abolition were achieved. Some say they would...
In mid-July, the College will disburse the first half of the $1.5 million in federal funds made available by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act to students receiving financial...
Men's crew named their newest racing shell "Class of 2020" in honor of their graduating seniors. (Photo courtesy of head coach Marc Mandel and @Ephheavies on Instagram.)
A few days before campus closed...
Rock Stewart ’20, surrounded by his teammates and friends, signed with the New York Lizards in a rooftop ceremony. (Photo courtesy of @LizardsLacrosse.)
On May 4, senior men’s lacrosse captains...
Summiya Najam ’20 will study at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar for Pakistan. She attended the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford during the 2018-19 academic year. (Photo courtesy of Summiya...
Throughout each semester, the Record”s sports section publishes “Athletes of the Week,” spotlighting Ephs” exceptional performances in a given week. Over the years, we have featured 25 members...
The annual Deford and Pinsky Awards celebrate sports information contributors. Pictured above is their signature purple box, where student-contributors sit while covering Eph athletic games. (Grace Byers...
When COVID-19 required the campus to close and classes were moved online in March, many senior student-athletes were just beginning to gear up for their final season in Eph uniform. For our senior issue,...
Men’s cross-country: Top of NESCAC, third at NCAA
For the first time since 2016, men’s cross-country has won the NESCAC championship, with seven Ephs, all of whom won All-NESCAC Honors, finishing...
Carl Shuck ’20
Team: Men’s squash
Hometown: Rye, N.Y.
Residence: Spencer
Major: Economics & English
Snack bar order: Black bean burger
What do you enjoy most about...
Gail Ouellette, a breakfast and lunch cook in Dining Services who worked at the College for 35 years, died on April 17 at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, Vt. She was 68.
Ouellette...
In a press release issued by the Trump administration last Friday, President Donald J. Trump announced Eric Soskin ’99 as his nominee for inspector general of the United States Department of Transportation...
Jason Hehir ’98, director of The Last Dance, sat for a one-on-one Zoom interview with Sports Information assistant Sal Gualtieri last month. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information.)
What if I told...
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...
The spring 2020 athletic season was cancelled in March following the College’s move to remote learning. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information.)
Last week, the NCAA released guidelines for the re-opening...
For many student athletes, much of the adjustment to remote learning has included losing access to training facilities and resources, hindering their ability to stay physically and mentally fit for both...
Christopher Clarey ’86 talks to a colleague from the Wimbledon Radio Show during last year’s tournament. (Photo courtesy of Christopher Clarey.)
Only a few months ago, Christopher Clarey ’86...
On Monday, the NCAA released guidelines on the process for resuming collegiate athletics following the COVID-19 pandemic. In its announcement that centered on a three-phase resocialization plan, the NCAA...
It has been more than a month and a half since most students left campus and returned home to finish the semester remotely. If you are anything like us and have found yourself in a bit of an entertainment...
Rep. Ed Case (D-HI) returned to Washington on a red-eye flight in the middle of the congressional recess to vote for a $484 billion coronavirus relief package. Photo courtesy of @RepEdCase.
Congress...
Peer Support Programs have resumed their services in a new online format. (Photo courtesy of the Williams Writing Center.)
Coordinating remote classes between professors and students can be difficult,...
Over 25 members of the college community have sent in videos of themselves reading poetry to be posted on the English department’s Instagram. (Photo courtesy of @williamsenglishdept on Instagram.)
Over...
Williamstown Commons, a nursing home across from Walgreen’s, has suffered the loss of 17 residents to COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of Williamstown Commons.)
Williamstown Commons, a nursing home and...
COVID-19 has changed nearly every facet of college life since campuses across the country closed in March, and athletics have been no exception. Over the past month, the recruitment process of the Class...
The Office of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response announced that it will continue Sexual Assault Awareness Month activities remotely. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention...
(Photo courtesy of Olive White.)
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...
The Last Dance, ESPN's 10-part documentary on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, premiered on Sunday night. The series is directed by Jason Hehir ’98. Photo courtesy of ESPN.
Every year, the College...
The Virtual Previews website functioned as a “hub for admitted students,” according to Dean of Admission and Financial Aid Liz Creighton ’01. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Admission.)
Students...
Although often thought of as the purview of scientists exclusively, epidemics are central to the work of several professors of literature at the College, who study how widespread disease is written about...
Pappa Charlie's is one of several Spring Street businesses that have stayed open. The sandwich spot recently added a curbside pickup option. (Kevin Yang/The Williams Record)
On a week when many students...
The Office of Admission and Financial Aid will implement a test-optional policy for students applying to the College as first-years and transfers during the 2020-2021 admission cycle. This move comes...
Strava, FaceTime, Skype, jogging, bodyweight. The College’s athletes are keeping up team dynamics and staying fit during the pandemic over social media and with modified workouts.
The impact that...
In light of recent events, everyone is searching for ways to combat stress, and exercising is one such tried and true method.
Unfortunately, traditional methods of staying fit are severely limited,...
Will Hardy ’10 (right) works as assistant coach of the San Antonio Spurs and the video coordinator for the USA Basketball Men’s National Team alongside Gregg Popovich...
(Photo courtesy of Darren Wang.)
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...
While WCMA remains indefinitely closed amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, museum staff continues to engage with students and visitors through social media and their website. (Photo courtesy of Williams College...
Eph alpine skier Maddie Dekko ’21, ranked second in the Eastern Division this winter, returned after the NCAA Championships announced their cancellation.
A day after the College announced
its mid-semester...
David Pilachowski (right first middle row) joins the 2019-2020 men's ice hockey team for their annual roster photo. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information.)
When you think of a librarian, the descriptors...
Sports Psychology has worked to provide mental health services to student-athletes since 2013, aligning with a broader movement across the country to address mental health issues that arise among students...
Baseball (0–2) dropped the first two games of their season to Springfield College (3–0) but remained competitive throughout Saturday’s double-header. While this is the first game for the Ephs, the...
I’m bound to provoke some anglers in the Deep South who are on their local fishing team with this one.
Is fishing a sport? In short, no.
Fishing is a connection between nature and the self,...
The men’s lacrosse team ended the 2019 season with 18 wins and ranked No. 1 in the Nike/US Lacrosse Div. III Men’s Preseason poll. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information).
Men’s lacrosse (1–0/1–0...
On Sunday, women’s lacrosse took a 17-5 win over Skidmore College.
Kara Wollmers ’20 and Shea van den Broek ’23 scored the first three goals and opened the game with a 3-0 lead within the...
Last weekend, the men’s squash team notched an 8-1 win over Bates and a 5-4 victory over Middlebury to claim the Summers Cup and the C Division National Championship title.
During Saturday’s...
Emma Egan ’20 won first place in the high jump event at the Div. III New England Championship. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information.)
Women’s track and field won its third consecutive Div. III...
Sofie Jones ’22 (nonner) becomes a goner as she wrestles against a member of the College’s wrestling team during a practice session. Sofie Jones/The Williams Record
In the past year, conversations...
Men’s swimming and diving finished the weekend with 1,987.5 points, putting them ahead of Tufts with 1,797.5 and Amherst with 1,386.5. (Photo courtesy of Sports Information.)
Last weekend, men’s...
On Saturday, men’s hockey (16–7–1, 13–5–0 NESCAC) defeated Amherst (9–11–4, 7–8–3) 5-2. With two goals each, Mac Carso ’23 and Tyler Scott ’21 secured the top seed in the NESCAC...
STEPHANIE TENG/ THE WILLIAMS RECORD The members of the Figure Skating Club pose for a photo after successfully hosting their annual ice show in Chapman Rink.
At 7:25 p.m. on Saturday night, 30 minutes...
Do you ever wake up at 6:11 a.m. and think about going for a run around the beautiful Berkshires? If your answer is no, then you and I are in the same boat. But for Professor of Environmental Studies...
Men’s ice hockey (15–6–1, 12–4–0 NESCAC) defeated Middlebury (8–11–3, 6–7–3 NESCAC) 5-3 on Saturday. The eventual game-winning goal came from Niko Karamanis ’22, who scored just 50...
PHOTO COURTESY OF SARAH GANTT. Student-athletes Rachel Cross ’21 (left) and Sarah Gantt ’23 formed a strong friendship through HalfTime.
Last fall, Rachel Cross ’21, a member...
PHOTO COURTESY OF SPORTS INFORMATION.
On Feb. 12, Athletic Director Lisa Melendy named Sarah Raymond as the College’s next women’s soccer head coach. Raymond, currently in her fourth...
Men’s squash (14–9) performed brilliantly in the first two rounds of the NESCAC Championships against No. 23 Bowdoin and No. 19 Bates last weekend before falling to No. 2 Trinity 7-2, finishing the...
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...
PHOTO COURTESY OF SPORTS INFORMATION. After the women captured the NESCAC championship title on Sunday, the team and its coaches took a celebratory jump into the pool.
Women’s swimming & diving...
If you happen to walk around Greylock Quad on a Tuesday night, you may hear laughter, cheering or, if you’re in luck, the sound of a punch or kick. In addition to a reminder that Greylock is, in fact,...
Michael Davis '23
Men's Soccer
Chicago, Ill.
“Michael has been fantastic in his rookie season and is among the league leaders in several goalkeeping categories. Apart from his obvious competitiveness,...
An overtime goal from forward Avery Dunn ’21 on Saturday secured the women’s first-ever regular season sweep of Middlebury. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
Last weekend, No. 10 women’s...
Manning has compiled a 500–236 record and nine NCAA tournament appearances in 29 seasons as head coach of women's basketball. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
Pat Manning didn’t think anyone...
Alan Hirsch and his son Eric Hirsch ’19 have attended Eph basketball games together since 2003 and now serve as NSN commentators. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
Alan Hirsch, chair of justice...
No. 18 men’s squash (12–10) secured a surprise second-place finish at the NESCAC Championship this weekend, advancing to the final match with a 5-4 comeback win against Middlebury before falling to...
Kyle Scadlock ’19 returned from a torn ACL to score 26 points in a Nov. 17 game against Salem State, his first contest in 11 months. Photo courtesy of the Berkshire Eagle.
On a cloudy December evening...
Jeff Lifson ’86 celebrates with his wife and son after his horse won the 2017 Kentucky Derby. Photo courtesy of Jeff Lifson.
While the Kentucky Derby has been dubbed “the most exciting two minutes...
Mason served as head coach of women’s lacrosse from 1980 to 2017. She coached 34 All-Americans during her 33 seasons at the College. Photo courtesy of Sports Information
Long-time women’s...
John DiGravio ’21 worked with young baseball players in Hanoi, Vietnam on basic fielding techniques and team cohesion. Photo courtesy of Sports Information.
There are no umpires or fences in sight,...
NO. 3 MEN’S BASKETBALL
Overall Record: 16-2
NESCAC: 4-1 (T-1st)
Men’s basketball opened its season with 15 consecutive wins, a program record, before falling to Amherst on Jan. 16 and Middlebury...
Olivia Barnhill '19
Women's soccer
New York, N.Y.
“Olivia is the best goalkeeper in Div. III. She does it all, she’s a shot stopper, an organizer, fearless and inspiring. She is an incredible...
Men’s Ice Hockey
Men’s ice hockey finished 14-11-1 (9-8-1 in the NESCAC) and lost to Trinity in the NESCAC Semifinals, the third trip to the semifinals in the last six seasons. Head Coach Bill Kangas...
Liz Webber ’20
Women's soccer
Natick, Mass.
“We’ve asked [Liz] to be more aggressive and defend higher and as a result she is defending as well as I’ve ever seen her defend. She has so many...
