Over eight years ago, when he canceled a planned speech by John Derbyshire, then-President Adam Falk wrote that the college should only...

Last spring when I was in Williamstown, I saw staff from Facilities (Buildings and Grounds in many of our day) spray-blasting...

Last night, Sunday November 3, 2024, vandals scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalized a table with a display celebrating Jewish and...

A week ago today, on Sunday, May 5, 2024, as I was preparing to leave Williamstown and head home to Los Angeles, I stopped on the...

Two weeks ago, on Friday, April 26, in an e-mail to the campus community, President Maud S. Mandel announced that after the disruption of...

“Free speech”, I read on Coleman Hughes’s Twitter feed while in Williamstown, “is never about protecting speech you agree with. It’s...

When Niko Malhotra ‘24, the student on our Steering Committee learned I would be in WIlliamstown this week, he invited me to attend a...

Last night, Thursday, April 25, 2024, students disrupted the last of three programs on the War in Gaza and the International Context. ...

In an interview with WAMC Northeast Public Radio, President Maud S. Mandel was asked about the protests at Columbia University and...

In our webinar last week, we asked our student panelists what the college could do to signal institutional support for free speech.  Each...

Those removed from campus life today sometimes come to understand college life by what we see and read in the media.  Since an angry...

For nearly six months now since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, Americans have been paying closer attention to colleges and...

While we support the right of the Queer Student Union, along with two other student groups, to host the “Deconstructing Pinkwashing”...

“Students”, I wrote, concluding my post defending their right to air all manner of opinions, “need to learn to respond to ideas, even...

Just over eight years ago, on February 28, 2016, then-President Adam Falk announced that he was cancelling a speech by John Derbyshire...

A Political Science professor who embodied the ideals of our alma mater passed yesterday, January 25, 2024. Kurt Tauber was 101. Born in...

Free speech at Williams means that students, faculty, administrators, and invited guests can speak their mind without sanction from the...

In a recent segment on CNN, Fareed Zakaria observed American universities have been neglecting excellence in order to pursue a variety of...

Last week, in addition to publishing junior Noah Cape’s smart piece in support of Israel and in favor of open discourse, The Record also...