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At yesterday’s annual Town Meeting, Williamstown residents voted to increase Williamstown Elementary School’s budget and fund a new skate park, among other items.

Town Meeting, which was held at Willia...

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Calls to reform the Facilitators for Allocating Student Taxes (FAST) have intensified as a group of elected FAST facilitators are pushing for a referendum proposing several changes to FAST’s constitution, in an effort to make the funding allocation system more equitable. This academic year, the Williams College Debating Union r...

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Students in the Class of 2028 declared their majors and concentrations on April 29, solidifying the academic paths they will pursue during their remaining time at the College. Registrar’s office data shared with the Record shows a sharp rise in Division I declarations, an all-time high in the number of English majors, and a contin...

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Copies of the Record after being printed in Albany.

Over the course of four years as Record editors, we’ve spent our Tuesday nights finishing up the paper before it gets published the next day — following up with sources, adding last-minute quotes to articles, editing stories, and designing the paper’s layout.

After all the fa...

To the graduating class:

I’m sorry.

I’ll explain. I was a student at the College from 1977 to 1981, am the parent of a son who graduated in 2018, and have been a visiting lecturer since 2023.

I had a teacher when I was a student here, Professor of History Frederick Rudolph ’42, who later became a mentor and friend. One semester he excoriated a piece I ...