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Housing Crisis: Friend Group Opts For Mouse Named Stuart Little Over You As Their Sixth Housing Pick
Well how do ya feel now? Can’t feel great, I bet. Yea, they chose a rat over you. And word has it they’re picking into East, which...
Sophie Bellwoar
Feb 27, 2022


Report: Driscoll To Start Serving Beer Because It’s The Grown-Up Dining Hall
Recently, Williams students have been pushing for the restoration of pre-covid campus culture. With public health and the college’s...
Lizzie High
Feb 26, 2022


Tutorial Partner Thinks He's a Knight From Middle Ages and Won’t Stop Trying to Best Me In A Duel
Dear the Haystack, We all know that tutorial meetings are basically wars; one partner emerges Victorious, and the other, a stupid loser....
Melia Hagino
Feb 26, 2022


The Haystack Investigates: 90% Of “Composted” Waste Actually Just Fed To Really Big Bear
Earlier this week, The Haystack investigated a bombshell report that the vast majority of the College’s food waste wasn’t actually being...
Noah Cohen-Greenberg
Feb 24, 2022


Oldest Book In Chapin Archives Torn To Shreds By Student Who Regrets Their Actions, Is Not Me
The Chapin Archives are mourning the great loss of the Oldest Book, which was ravenously torn up yesterday afternoon. The student...
Lizzie High
Feb 24, 2022


Particularly Jaded Sophomore Refers To "Their Freshman Year" Wistfully, As Ancient Fable Long Lost
Monday, 12:30pm, a Lee’s Booth. Sophomore Katie Pointers is seated across from freshman Abby Martin, each enjoying their own ensemble of...
Lizzie High and Lucy Walker
Feb 24, 2022


Roommate Doing Shadow Puppets Behind Student Most Interesting Thing About Zoom Meeting For Sure
At this point in the academic year, it’s hard to find a single person who isn’t tired of Zoom. Everything about it is sooo exhausting....
Jackson Small
Feb 15, 2022


College To Begin Alerting Students Of Positive Test Results Through Personal Visits In Dreams
And thus the bell tolls over the fair land of the Berkshires, the nightingale coos one last time, the heavens brew darkly over our...
Julia Clark
Feb 15, 2022


Student Reduced To Tears By Work They'd Describe In Two Months As “Literally no work, just reading"
Two months from this very Sunday, Frank Scotch ‘23 will nonchalantly tell his friends that his light weekend slate of four reading...
Noah Cohen-Greenberg and Sam Mermin
Feb 6, 2022


College Salting Policies Bring Decrease In Student Slippage, Increase In Tastiness Of Shoes
Since the depths of winter have descended on the Williams College campus, the college administration has made major changes to the campus...
Lizzie High
Feb 5, 2022


Op-Ed: I’m Going To Win Brunch
Sunday brunch. Yeah, I’m gonna wake up, go to Resky, make a not-so-bad hangover (which I will complain about a lot) into an actually bad...
The Haybale
Nov 21, 2021
Administration to Determine Each Day’s Covid Policy by Spinning Giant Multicolored “Wheel of Safety”
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA—As announced by Jim Reische in this week’s Ops message, the College will now be deciding Covid policies by spinning a...
The Haybale
Nov 19, 2021


Report: I Wouldn’t Blame Me for Hitting You With My Car at This Late Hour
It’s dark. It might be raining, or maybe those are just my tears. Jk haha? I’m driving all alone on my way back from Walmart, listening...
The Haybale
Nov 13, 2021
Conveyor Belt
Greg Applejack ‘25 knows how to get into Whitman’s for seconds and thirds, he claims. Applejack has been spotted around campus carrying...
Claire Tolliver
Nov 9, 2021


Group of Williams Students Smoking Located by Following Sound of Coughs
This toke is no joke! Last Friday night, Brad Warbles ‘23 came to the Haystack publication office with an interesting story regarding a...
The Haybale
Nov 1, 2021
Man wearing t-shirt to halloween party is smarter than you
Hundreds of cat-ear headbands. A few tastefully sexy firefighters. Some less tastefully sexy firefighters, one tiny scrap of fabric away...
The Haybale
Oct 30, 2021


I Lived It: I Joined Rock Climbing Club and Now I've Been Stuck in a Rock for 127 Hours
“It’ll be a good way to make new friends,” she said. “It’ll help you meet girls and get over your crippling fear of ropes and pulleys,”...
Isaac Wilkins
Oct 28, 2021


Friend Who Ordered Hot Chocolate at Tunnel Swears They're Not a Little Baby Boy
Last week, Haystack reporters were positioned in Tunnel City Coffee Shop where we witnessed Jeremy Pickles ‘23 unabashedly order a small...
Sophie Bellwoar and Lucy Walker
Oct 28, 2021


Report: You Were REALLY Loud Getting Your Computer Charger Out in Sawyer
Yep, this article is about you. There’s no need to deny it, no need to be shy, everyone already knows you were the one making all that...
Lizzie High
Oct 28, 2021


Report: Spring Street Dog Looks Rich
After the long weekend, the Haystack received several reports of well-to-do looking dogs on Spring Street. The dogs, notable because they...
Lucy Walker
Oct 28, 2021
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