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Op-Ed: The Testing Site Has No Respect for Boogery Boys Like Me
Yes, you heard that right. I’m a bloody snot monster. Despite the discrimination I have faced my whole life, recently I have become proud...
Asher Gladstone
Mar 22, 2021


Op-Ed: They Put Sandwich Bread in Paresky and Now I'm on a Bender
Picture it: your sophomore year of high school, you just got out of track practice, you’re starving. What is there to eat? Something...
Lizzie High
Mar 9, 2021


The Witch Who Owns the Williamstown Apothecary Turned Me into a Frog, and Now You Have to Kiss Me
Dear Williams College Community, My name is Steven, and I need your help. Until last week, I lived in relative obscurity on this campus....
Melia Hagino and Lucy Walker
Mar 4, 2021


I Lived It: My Girlfriend Took a Feminist Poetry Class and Won’t Do My Laundry Anymore
By Lak Ross Hey. Super duper stoked to be writing about, like, a serious problem that I think we should be talking about as a community....
Shenba Vairavan
Mar 1, 2021


Last Question on Schiazza's Survey Just "Can I Join Your Pod?"
Doug Schiazza recently sent out a survey asking for Williams Students’ opinions on. . . housing? This reporter hasn’t read the email, but...
The Haybale
Feb 25, 2021


Wow! The College Pledges to Give First Vaccine Doses to Anyone Who Will Go Out With Me
With the spring semester beginning, students and faculty alike have been left anxiously wondering just how well Williams will replicate...
Kevin Ryan
Feb 24, 2021


Red Flag? This Syllabus Includes Assignments
The Haystack received a tip this morning with some troubling information about the class syllabus for History 355. According to Connor...
Sam Mermin
Feb 19, 2021


Athlete's Dream of NESCAC Championship Unjustly Abandoned for Nonner's Dream of Surviving Pandemic
As Edgar Allen Poe once wrote, “To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.” In what is...
The Haybale
Feb 17, 2021


Mandel to Livestream Dinner With Husband to Teach Lonely Quarantined Students What Love Is
Even if you have managed to escape the painful void of loneliness for most of this year, human connection will still be missing on...
Asher Gladstone
Feb 14, 2021


1 in 2,000: Sarah Williams
Each week, The Record chooses a random unix and conducts an interview. And then, like, once a month or something, The Haystack rips them...
Melia Hagino
Feb 5, 2021


Students Can Have a Silly Little Day for Their Silly Little Mental Health as a Silly Little Treat
In an effort to cater to the mental health of a student body that is doing “fine, totally fine, we’re fucking fine, it’s fine, haha,” the...
The Haybale
Jan 21, 2021


1 in 2000: The Eldritch Terror That Lurks in the Earth Beneath Sawyer Lawn
On a nice sunny day, one might see Williams students out frolicking and gallivanting around Sawyer Lawn between classes. On this...
Sara Stebbins
Jan 13, 2021


Intimacy After COVID-19: I Hope to Lose My Virginity Next Year
The unique and unprecedented nature of this year has altered almost every aspect of our lives. The future is uncertain, and campus may...
The Haybale
Dec 30, 2020


A Review of "Jeremy," the Boy Your Sister Brought Home for the Holidays
In a time when any distraction from the monotony of existence is a rare and delightful commodity, the premiere of a new houseguest brings...
Melia Hagino
Dec 21, 2020


"Day Drinking," "Fuck Crafts," and Other Rejected Free University Courses
Fuck Crafts Instructor: Amelia Donk Instructor contact: abd2@williams.edu Sign-up Information: https://forms.gle/KhdE5qXzeZ9aNsAB9 Course...
Asher Gladstone
Dec 16, 2020


Haystack on the Phone: WEPO Director Clark Corker
After deciding to go forward with an in-person experience, the Williams College Exeter Programme at Oxford, which dates back to 1985, had...
The Editorial Board
Dec 14, 2020


Kevin Ryan
Dec 14, 2020


English Major Indistinguishable from Beaten Paperback Book He’s Holding
A Haystack interview got off to a bad start yesterday when our reporter spent the first three minutes of a Zoom call staring silently at...
Sam Mermin
Dec 11, 2020


President Mandel Unveils Her Spotify Wrapped, Top Artist is 100 gecs
In an attempt to relate to the Williams student body and to make sure everyone knows how fucking sick her music taste is, President Maud...
Sara Stebbins
Dec 9, 2020


Breaking: Your Mom Loves The Crown, Thinks You Could Really Learn Something From It
Recently your mom reached out to Haystack reporters to let them know how good she thinks this season of The Crown is. Obviously, she’s...
The Haybale
Dec 8, 2020
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