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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...
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...
thewilliamshaystack
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...
thewilliamshaystack
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...
thewilliamshaystack
Jan 21, 2021
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