Seventy years ago, my grandmother left her village in search of education and a better life. She grew up in rural Korea, where societal structures resembled the Middle Ages. Her life changed when she...
To the Lafayette community,
Each year, we ask ourselves: what can you expect from a good college newspaper? It is our obligation as journalists to bring our audience all the facts from all sides of...
To the editor,
I am writing to express my dismay at the open letter written by several Lafayette College professors and staff calling on the college to apologize for issuing a warning letter to student...
To the Lafayette community,
I write this to you full of gratitude for the outstanding year we have had at The Lafayette. It’s been a busy one, to put it lightly.
From dining drama to student protests,...
Abridged version of an April 30 open letter signed by 52 faculty and staff:
Dear President Hurd,
On Thursday, April 25, 2024, several students received an email from Jennifer Dize (Interim Dean of...
Lafayette College’s endowment is over $1 billion in size, and its students have no idea where that money is going. The college is deliberately opaque regarding its investments, but information from public...
The Lafayette has received complaints regarding its reporting last week on a pro-Palestine protest on campus. After an internal review, The Lafayette acknowledges that the article over-emphasized the perspective...
Lafayette has a history of student activism. In the 1970s, students protested the Vietnam War. In 2016, students sat-in at Fisher field during the national anthem in protest of police brutality. In the...
I had the opportunity to interview 42 Lafayette students about their opinions of exercise as an alternative mental health treatment on college campuses for my honors psychology thesis. I went into this...
