Hikaru Wakeel Hayakawa ’24 is a prospective history, political economy, and geosciences major from Maplewood, N.J. He is a staff writer for the features section.
After the fall of the Western-supported democratic government in Afghanistan to the Taliban last August, many Afghan university students face an uncertain and daunting future. Now, members of the community are pushing the College to dedicate spots in its next admitted class to Afghan evacuees.
Van de Stadt is not alone in her multinational background. Before settling in Massachusetts, many other members of the College’s faculty lived, learned, and worked in countries around the world.
During a period of national reckoning following the siege, the Record spoke with four professors about the role social media played and just how predictable this violence was.
As an unparalleled fall semester concludes, the Dec. 1 deadline for students to decide their enrollment status for the spring semester draws closer. In anticipation of the deadline, the Record interviewed...
Three hundred sixty-one students enrolled at the College remotely, according to numbers released this July. And inevitably, for each one of us, there are different COVID-19 restrictions, home environments and learning experiences.
This year, the entry experience has moved online for remote students. (Nigel Jaffe/The Williams Record)
I made many predictions for my freshman year, but making my first college friends...
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