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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...

Melia Hagino and Lucy Walker

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....

Shenba Vairavan

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....

thewilliamshaystack

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...

Kevin Ryan

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...

Sam Mermin

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...

thewilliamshaystack

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...

Asher Gladstone

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...

Melia Hagino

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...

thewilliamshaystack

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...