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What screams romantic confliction more than standing on top of the mountain as the wind blows in your face? (Photo courtesy of IMDB)

Movie Review: 2005 ‘Pride and Prejudice’ gets yearning right

By Grace Sanborn, Sports Editor May 9, 2025

If I ever get proposed to, I want the person I marry to walk across a foggy field at dawn to apologize for his aunt’s behavior à la Mr. Darcy in Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic...

Members of The Lafayette staff celebrate the end of volume 151 of the oldest college newspaper in Pennsylvania.

Editors share their favorite articles of 2024-25

By The Lafayette Editorial Board May 9, 2025

Isabella Gaglione ‘25, Editor-in-Chief 2024 Election Day on campus by The Lafayette Staff I have never been prouder than seeing this story come together. We had news, culture, sports editors and...

Student visas can be tracked by schools through the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, a federal database used to monitor foreign students and visitors. (Photo courtesy of Lehigh Communications)

Student visas revoked at Lehigh

By Selma O’Malley and Elisabeth Seidel April 11, 2025

Several international students at Lehigh University have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration, according to the school’s student newspaper on Thursday. It is unclear when and why the visas...

You cannot impeach the horse. (Graphic by Hungry Hungry Hippo for The Scoffayette)

All administrative vacancies filled by horse

By Hungry Hungry Hippo, The Egg on Your Face March 28, 2025

Lafayette College President Nicole Hurd announced Thursday that, effective immediately, all empty administrative positions will be filled by a horse. The interim horse. “What’s in motion is already...

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty place from day to day. Or so they say. (Graphic by No Money, No Prospects for The Scoffayette)

Mysterious visitors curse athletics, spell doom for championship hopes

By No Money, No Prospects, Already A Burden To My Parents March 28, 2025

The athletic department announced on Monday that it unearthed a plot to “curse” all 23 Division I sports teams at the school. Sophomore lacrosse player Mac Beth was walking to his dorm in the Fishers...

This is action you can't get in a twin XL bed ;). (Graphic by slobweekenjoyer for the Scoffayette)

Pervasive PDA prompts privacy pods

By Queen of Kale, Find me in the woman hole March 28, 2025

New “PDA Pods” were installed in Skillman Library and the lower atrium of Farinon College Center last week receiving glowing reviews from the campus community. “We knew it was time when crusty...

Several members of the underground bullying network successfully escaped the pursuit of Public Danger.

Please Contact Public Danger at 626-831- 9333 with any tips. (Graphic by Whora the Explorer for The Scoffayette)

‘I was scared for my life’

By Mega Fetus, pingüino número uno March 28, 2025

In a coordinated raid at Hogg Hall Interfaith Chapel Thursday evening, Public Danger apprehended dozens of students tied to an underground bullying network jointly orchestrated by leaders of The Happiness...

All signs point to the journalistic ranks being depleted. Send help. (Photo by No Money, No Prospects for The Scoffayette)

Scoffayette reporters to be executed for the greater good

By Nude Egg, Hash-Slinging Slasher March 28, 2025

The athletic department revealed the school's new plan for improving the performance of Lafayette’s sports teams. “Starting next week, the on-site reporter for The Scoffayette will be publicly executed...

Murray's Mice comes in several varieties including fried, roasted and disease-free. (Graphic by An Evil Wizard Trapped Me in the Paper for The Scoffayette)

Introducing Murray’s Mice

By An Evil Wizard Trapped Me in the Paper, Send Help March 28, 2025

In place of ye olden Bon Appetit Murray's Chicken, Parkhurst Dining has introduced an alternative, "Murray’s Mice," after avian flu killed off all birds. “Yeah, they're all gone,” Chris Blahahahahaha,...

Cocaine Bear always wins. (Graphic by Cocaine Bear)

A news analysis: The quickest way to Marquis

By Cocaine Bear, Giver of Many GAFs March 28, 2025

The Scoffayette decided to use its limited daylight hours and even more limited Student Government-issued budget to settle the ultimate debate once and for all: what’s the fastest way to Marquis Hall? “I...

NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM. (Graphic by slobweekenjoyer)

Book Review: ‘If You Give a Mouse a Cookie’ has philosophical underpinnings Aristotle can only dream of

By pwincess, witerawwy asking for feet pics March 28, 2025

I had the opportunity to get my hands on the book that puts the Gutenberg Bible to shame, “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” To be blunt, this is by far the most confusing, mind-blowing piece of literature...

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