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The Lafayette

The Oldest College Newspaper in Pennsylvania

The Lafayette

Students involved in the investigation will go before the Student Conduct Board.

Women’s rugby facing dozens of hazing charges after Public Safety investigation

By Madeline Marriott, Editor-in-Chief December 8, 2023

Public Safety has recommended charges to the Office of Student Conduct for the women's club rugby team after the completion of a hazing investigation. The team is set to face a disciplinary panel that...

Henry Kissinger attended Lafayette for two terms in 1944 through an army program. (Photo courtesy of the Lafayette Alumnus Magazine)

Henry Kissinger’s Lafayette connections

By Madeline Marriott, Editor-in-Chief December 8, 2023

Former secretary of state and national security advisor Henry Kissinger died last week at age 100. Kissinger, despite his worldwide acclaim and disdain, was no stranger to Lafayette — he attended the...

“Vampires of El Norte” by Isabel Cañas tells the story of childhood friends who have to deal with both war and mythical creatures. (Photo courtesy of Goodreads)

Maddie’s Library: Winter break reading list

By Madeline Marriott, Editor-in-Chief December 8, 2023

Confession time: I’m seven books away from completing my 2023 Goodreads challenge of 40 books. If you’re doing the math, that will be about one book every three days. It won’t be easy, but it’s...

Mike Jordan was officially terminated in March. (Photo courtesy of The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Fired basketball coach sues college for wrongful termination, racial discrimination

By Madeline Marriott and Trebor Maitin December 1, 2023

Mike Jordan, the former men’s basketball coach, filed a federal lawsuit against the college alleging wrongful termination and racial discrimination. The suit, filed on Nov. 14 in the Eastern District...

Sophomore running back Jamar Curtis runs past a Delaware defender. (Photo by Rick Smith for GoLeopards)

Football falls to Delaware in nail-biter in first round of FCS playoffs

By Dan Sullivan, Staff Writer December 1, 2023

In its first postseason action since 2013, the football team (9-3 overall, 5-1 Patriot League) fell to 11th-ranked Delaware in the first round of the NCAA FCS playoffs by a score of 36-34 on Saturday....

Bright Young Women traces the aftermath of a string of murders from the 1970s to 2021. (Photo courtesy of Simon & Schuster)

Maddie’s Library: ‘Bright Young Women’ flips script on true crime

By Madeline Marriott, Editor-in-Chief December 1, 2023

Picture Ted Bundy in your mind. Are you thinking of Zac Efron? Mark Harmon? He's handsome, isn't he? Clever and cunning? Jessica Knell will convince you otherwise in her third novel "Bright Young Women,"...

The football team celebrates its commanding victory over Lehigh. (Photo by Rick Smith for GoLeopards)

Football routs Lehigh, clinches first Patriot League title since 2013

By Charlie Berman and Madeline Marriott November 18, 2023

With its 49-21 domination of rival Lehigh University (2-9 overall, 1-5 Patriot League) on Saturday, the football team (9-2 overall, 5-1 Patriot League) nabbed the Patriot League title and earned an automatic...

The crew team poses with its gold medals after the Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta. (Photo courtesy of Anne Wang 26)

Crew crushes competition in final regatta of season

By Madeline Marriott, Editor-in-Chief November 17, 2023

The crew team delivered an overwhelming victory in its final competition of the fall season at the Philadelphia Frostbite Regatta last weekend. The regatta, which took place in Windsor, New Jersey on...

The Hurd family hosted 55 students for Thanksgiving last year. (Photo courtesy of Nicole Hurd)

Hurd to host second annual Thanksgiving dinner

By Madeline Marriott, Editor-in-Chief November 17, 2023

College President Nicole Hurd and her family will open their doors to Lafayette students remaining on campus during Thanksgiving break for the second year in a row next Thursday. "These traditions are...

Amy E. Herman will be the third alum in a row to give the commencement address. (Photo courtesy of Christine Butler)

‘This is always going to be home’

By Madeline Marriott, Editor-in-Chief November 3, 2023

Amy E. Herman ‘88, this year’s commencement speaker, first charted out the path for her life while in professor Robert Mattison's art history class. “If it were not for [Mattison’s] class, I...

The group of students was working in the section of the Bushkill Creek in Jacobsburg. (Photo courtesy of Scenic Wild Delaware River)

Student researchers find gun in Bushkill Creek

By Madeline Marriott and Trebor Maitin November 3, 2023

Three students conducting biology research in the Bushkill Creek uncovered a gun during an expedition last Friday. The student group was conducting research in Jacobsburg, Pennsylvania approximately...

Protagonist Rory Morris deals with a wolf bite and a strained maternal relationship in Such Sharp Teeth. (Photo courtesy of Goodreads)

Maddie’s Library: ‘Such Sharp Teeth’ offers feminist werewolf dream

By Madeline Marriott, Editor-in-Chief October 27, 2023

When I heard Rachel Harrison’s “Such Sharp Teeth” described as a feminist werewolf novel, the part of me that read “Twilight” at a very formative, far-too-young age was quick to add it to my...

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