Nov 21, 2016
Take Five
FIVE Lafayette-born politicos discuss the allure of government Sara Hayet ’18 Field organizer with Pennsylvania Democrats Major: Women’s & Gender Studies…
Take Five
Nov 21, 2016
Editor’s Note: For Whom the Bells of South College Toll
Four years ago, my older son, Jacob ’16, asked if I was going to cry when we dropped him off for his first year at Lafayette College. “I don’t think…
Nov 21, 2016
Remembering Sarah Bramley ’19 and Joey Towers ’18
Lafayette is mourning two students who recently passed away. Sarah Bramley ’19 died Aug. 19 at her home in Hackettstown, N.J. She was serious about engineering…
Nov 20, 2016
More Enlightenment from the Marquis
An exhibition this winter at the Grolier Club in New York will offer the first comprehensive view of the Marquis de Lafayette as an international antislavery…
Nov 20, 2016
The Times They Are A-Changin’
by Peter Newman ’73 For orientation this year, first-year students read Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who describes for his son his life…
Nov 19, 2016
Lookin’ Good, Oechsle
The Oechsle Center for Global Education received a prestigious honorable mention award for new architecture by the Society of College and University Planning…
Nov 19, 2016
Engineering All-Stars
by Bryan Hay Induction into the National Academy of Engineers is the engineering equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize or a gold-plated Academy Award. “It’s…
Nov 19, 2016
Engineering A Better World
Stodgy? Academic? Numbers, lines, and angles? Tom Loughlin ’83 doesn’t see engineers as clipboard-toting white coats in laboratories. Instead, the…
Nov 18, 2016
Class Notes
The Class Notes PDF that is available here includes news excerpts from the columns written by class correspondents that are posted on the websites created…
Nov 18, 2016
Making it count
651 The number of first-year and transfer students in the class of 2020 Lafayette’s 185th is one of the most academically powerful in the College’s…