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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Record editors Steve Willard ’82, Stephen Spears ’83, Eric Schmitt ’82, and Richard Henderson ’83 pose in a steam tunnel while on a self-guided tour early on a Monday morning. (Photo courtesy of ...

The College admitted 257 out of 964 early decision applicants to the Class of 2029 on Dec. 13, an acceptance rate of 26.6 percent. The College also welcomed 18 students through QuestBridge’s National ...

Total waste for each fiscal year, with trash in dark purple and recycled waste in light purple. The yellow line shows the diversion rate, or the percentage of waste that is recycled. (Haley ...

Excited moviegoers queue up for tickets and popcorn. (Photo courtesy of Juan Baena [Osito Mountain Photos].) Images Cinema plans to upgrade its theatre and add a second screening room in its first ...

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 ...

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.

With its picturesque mountains and ivy-covered walls, Williams could be a postcard of romanticized college life. Or, at least, that’s what filmmakers seem to have thought for the last 50 years. Not ...

“Tu as bien dormi?” the professor asked me, pushing up the sleeves of his yellow-striped turtleneck. I looked to the student sitting next to me. “No hablo francés,” I responded meekly. I was at my ...