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...
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...
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...
How are the Pepper Prize finalists chosen? From firsthand experience, I can tell you that the process is thorough, but it is also thoroughly flawed.
That is because Student Government is the only student...
The Office of the Vice President for Student Life recently reaffirmed via email that the college should not be considered responsible for providing “non-emergency” menstrual products, but neglected...
Student Government is broken.
We’ve seen it all over the course of this year. Resignations have been occurring at an unforeseen rate as people grow frustrated. Student Government can't even seem to...
In April 2023, the art department submitted a statement to The Lafayette regarding the reception of public artwork on campus. Part reads, “[public art] represents in a very real sense the intellectual...
I should stay off of Lafayette’s social media, because it’s too aggravating. Too many of the posts have the theme: “Why I love Lafayette.” Interviews with students on Instagram show them giddy...
2023, for Lafayette College, was a year of overhauls … and a year of controversies.
Several sports teams overcame yearslong dry spells to become some of the most dominant in the Patriot League –...
An op-ed was written last year questioning the hypocrisy of having to pay for Lafayette/Lehigh, and the lack of sports camaraderie compared to a decades ago. With another Rivalry game coming up on Saturday...
