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College Announces Cookies at Testing Site Were a Replacement for One of the Mental Health Days
This past Monday and Tuesday, students who visited the College’s COVID testing center were lucky enough to receive a free sugar cookie...
Sam Mermin
Apr 15, 2021


Report: I am the Most Fuckable Person in this Resky Brunch Line
After careful consideration, I have determined that by every metric both physical and immaterial I am the hottest motherfucker in a 4...
Lizzie High and Kevin Ryan
Apr 11, 2021


Op-ed: I still don’t know whether my class has a course packet
There are many assignments in an average Williams class. Some are essays. Some are mad minute math worksheets. Some are even where you go...
The Haybale
Apr 8, 2021


I’m a Campus Conservative, I Found a Tampon Wrapper in our Bathroom, and I’m Gonna Fucking Call CSS
Hey guys. It’s me. Greg. The campus conservative. I wrote a bunch of emails to the Haystack that just said “please,” or “let me speak”...
The Haybale
Apr 5, 2021


Vice Principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off Named New Director of CSS
Following the news of Campus Safety and Security Director Dave Boyer’s upcoming retirement, college administration were tasked with...
Melia Hagino
Mar 30, 2021


JA You Suspect Might Be a Beaver a Little Too Ok With Your Suggestion of Woodchips For Sunday Snacks
“So uhhh, what about woodchips?” your eyes dart around the room as you pose the question, but there’s really only one response you care...
Kevin Ryan
Mar 28, 2021


Fourth Prong of Mandel’s Public Health Model is “Suspense and Deception”
Yesterday The Haystack sat down with President Maud Mandel to discuss the College’s COVID containment strategy in the wake of several...
Sam Mermin
Mar 25, 2021


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
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