If you’re a Williams College student reading this article, Lucy Calkins ’73 probably taught you how to do so. Maybe you memorized sight words. Maybe you learned to read through “just right” books for ...

The College offered admission to 1,038 applicants on March 21 through the regular decision process, according to Dean of Admission and Student Financial Services Liz Creighton ’01. Applicants who ...

Kate Morse ’03 died last Tuesday in an avalanche in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe. She was 45 years old. According to the New York Times, Morse was on a guided trip with five ...

Cohen received significant backlash online for voicing her opposition to MIT’s decision to invite Abbot to speak at the university. (Photo courtesy of Phoebe Cohen.) Professor and Chair of Geosciences ...

This is a clear-cut matter of historical fact. Documents from his life, including his will, demonstrate that he enslaved at least five Black people, named Prince, J. Romanoo, Moni, London, and Cloe.

The Elm Tree House on Mount Hope Estate in the 1970s. (Photo courtesy of Special Collections.) At a small college like this one, it doesn’t take much to think you know campus like the back of your ...

How did you start playing volleyball? My older sister started playing in sixth grade, so I was in third grade, and being the younger sister, I copied everything she did. She needed someone to practice ...

Reza Pahlavi attended the College for the 1979-80 academic year. (Photo courtesy of The Williams Record.) Usually, whenever former Dean of Admission Philip Smith ’55 got word of a high-profile student ...

Although roughly 50 percent of students at the College identify as female, women consistently make up just 30 percent of all economics majors at the College. This data comes from the economics ...

“I don’t have a typical day,” Michael Govan ’85 said in an interview with the Record. “It starts early, and it almost always ends up in going out. I go out six nights a week.” Govan is the director of ...

Follies showgirls in their 1940s costumes at London National Theatre. (Photo courtesy of the Clark Art Institute.) Despite being a self-proclaimed Stephen Sondheim ’50 aficionado, I must admit that ...

The Record sent out a survey to 1,000 randomly selected students last week in order to explore how students at the College meet their sexual partners, how they define sexual pleasure, and how ...