To the Lafayette community,
As I reflect on this past year and write what likely will be my last words ever for The Lafayette, I feel some sadness but also much fulfillment. It has been an honor to...
The college recently expressed interest in working with the Indigenous Rights Coalition (IRC) to add an interpretive sign to the Sullivan Trail Monument and to potentially move the monument from its current...
Thank you for the article about Ramadan dining in your April 14 edition. I appreciate you offering the Lafayette community a window to learn about the varied religions and cultures practiced by our student...
For Elizabeth "Beth" Mowins ‘89, a sports broadcasting career was never a question of "if," but "how."
“I really never wanted to do anything else. So there was no out. There were no other paths...
It turns out Pennsylvania's oldest college newspaper is also the baldest. For the past decade, every editor-in-chief of The Lafayette has gone bald, an alarming trend for former top editors of the newspaper...
Clement Swaby, the man responsible for the 2021 McCartney Street break-ins and a 2020 rape of a Lehigh University student, was sentenced to 75 to 150 years in Northampton County Court last Wednesday.
Swaby...
Our goal in establishing SJP at Lafayette is to encourage freedom, justice and equality for Palestinians in the context of the collective liberation of all peoples. When the administration denied our application,...
The article posted March 10 about QPOC living in Lavender Lane not only misrepresented the QPOC experience in the house, but took the opinions of its residents out of context. The way that both Image and...
Dozens of elite law and medical schools have removed themselves from the U.S. News & World Report Rankings since last year. While some undergraduate institutions have followed suit, the vast majority,...
Earlier this month, the college denied a group of students' request to form a chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on campus. The Office of Student Life contends that the chapter’s events...
Last week, it was announced that a pair of administrative shifts will change who oversees key divisions of the college. The changes "aim to center the student experience, bring comparable portfolios together,...
Olivia Puzio ‘25 defeated incumbent Matwos Tadesse ‘24 and Anna Fenkel ‘25 in a close race for the Student Government presidency after polls for the Executive Board elections closed on Tuesday evening.
According...
