
Dec 20, 2018
Art and Animals
By Kathleen Parrish In 2005, Carrie Rohman’s two worlds collided when she attended a six-week course at Cornell School of Criticism and Theory. There…
By Kathleen Parrish In 2005, Carrie Rohman’s two worlds collided when she attended a six-week course at Cornell School of Criticism and Theory. There…
By Kathleen Parrish The backstory: It was Shakespeare who wrote, “And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” Who hasn’t fantasized about raining…
By Mark Eyerly What’s the focus? Both courses provide a historical perspective on baseball, through which students explore economics, statistics, racism…
Some are memories, others are experiences; some are homemade, and others are bought. No matter their cost, these gifts are priceless treasures. In the…
The gist: It can be tricky to navigate a media-saturated world, where a constant stream of information is carefully crafted to influence and shape beliefs…
By Bryan Hay What’s it about? More than a delivery system for caffeine, coffee has been a highly traded commodity for centuries, generates wildly different…
Lafayette’s First-Year Seminar (FYS) program gives new college students the opportunity to think critically, write clearly, and contribute to thoughtful…
With all of the papers to write, or papers to grade, and a sense that there just aren’t enough hours in the day, it’s easy to get trapped in the bah-humbug…
By Kathleen Parrish In the 1939 movie Gunga Din, the villains were a secret society of turban-wearing assassins. For many western movie-goers, it was the…
By Bill Landauer Over four decades at Lafayette, Diane Cole Ahl has helped countless students around the world find their way through the sophisticated…