Oct 28, 2018
A Fresh-Eyed Look at Empires
By Bill Landauer In the first half of the 20th century, two world wars shook the planet to its core. The handful of empires that controlled the largest…
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Oct 28, 2018
Riyaaz Qawwali’s Encore Hits Lafayette Floor
By Bill Landauer Four years ago, Kamal Bookwala ’20 fell for Riyaaz Qawwali. Bookwala was in high school at the time, and she’d come to Lafayette’s…
Oct 27, 2018
Hunting Ghosts in the Stacks
By Stephen Wilson Consider your relationship with books. If that proves difficult in this age of reading on phones and tablets, consider your parents or…
Oct 27, 2018
1000 Nights
First-year students danced the night away at the first of the sister dances 1000 Nights and 100 Nights, which count down the days until graduation for…
Oct 25, 2018
Project Catches Deer in Headlights of Driverless Cars
By Bryan Hay Alex Brown encountered deer almost every night driving along rural roads of central Pennsylvania during his graduate and postdoctorate work…
Oct 24, 2018
Protect the Environment—and Your Data
By Katie Neitz October is Campus Sustainability Month and National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which makes it fitting that tomorrow, the Office of…
Oct 24, 2018
Landis Day
Photos by Clay Wegrzynowicz, story by Stephen Wilson For more images from the day, visit Flickr. Local dignitaries, College administrators, faculty, staff…
Oct 22, 2018
Economics Professor Ponders $1.6 Billion Jackpot
By Bryan Hay Are you prepared to win the historic Mega Millions jackpot and all the tedious financial planning that would come with that? Just imagine…
Oct 21, 2018
Previewing the Midterm Elections
By Bryan Hay When it comes to midterm elections, there are two historical certainties—voters don’t turn out in impressive numbers and the president’s…
Oct 20, 2018
Green Team
Silvia Chilel Martin ’20 Major: Biology Role: Volunteer coordinator Green dream: “I feel strongly about promoting sustainable practices on campus.…