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<div>[[Category:Guides]] [[Category:History]]<br />
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The [[Wood House]] party (also known simply as Wood) was an unmasked gathering of ~100 students in Wood House on February 26, 2021. This party resulted in 127 students being sent home to complete the rest of the semester virtually.<ref>[https://williamsrecord.com/456133/news/college-removes-127-students-from-campus-in-response-to-party/| College Removes 127 Students From Campus in Response to Party]</ref><br />
[[Image:WoodHouse.jpg|right|thumbnail|Wood House]]<br />
<br />
==The Party==<br />
<br />
The Wood party was one of several unmasked indoor gatherings during the 20-21 academic year, but it is notable for its size and ensuing disciplinary action. Wood consisted of a collection of separate parties that coalesced into one event. The main party of 80-100 students was on Wood's bottom floor, but many of the students sent home were attending smaller gatherings on the building's other floors.<br />
<br />
It's important to note that many of the party's attendees were athletes.<br />
<br />
==The School's Response==<br />
<br />
===The Night Of===<br />
Williams's first response to the Wood party was to send a CSS officer to break it up. Students fled the scene once the officer arrived, and CSS initially made no attempt to gather information regarding the party's attendees.<br />
===Maud's Email===<br />
The day after the party, President [[Maud Mandel]] sent out an email to the College's students, faculty, and staff. Maud asked any students who attended the Wood party to come forward or face potential disciplinary action (including possible suspension).<br />
<br />
To the chagrin of the student body, Maud also announced that because of the party, the planned loosening of Covid restrictions would be delayed.<ref>[https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Williams-College-Mail-Regarding-an-unsafe-party-on-campus-last-night.pdf| Maud's First Email]</ref><br />
<br />
===The Investigation===<br />
<br />
The school sought to fulfill its promise of disciplinary action against students who did not come forward, and CSS conducted a thorough investigation. Around 170 students were interviewed.<br />
<br />
According to a quote obtained by the ''Record'', CSS used "access records, several witness statements, team rosters, numerous phone tips, [and] invites to the party."<br />
<br />
Perhaps most controversially, the College used students' WiFi data to track their locations on campus the night of the party.<ref>[https://williamsrecord.com/456730/news/college-used-wifi-data-to-track-presence-at-wood-party-increases-css-patrols-in-dorms/| College Used WiFi Data to Track Presence at Wood party]</ref><br />
<br />
==Student Response==<br />
<br />
The party at Wood caused anger, resentment, and sadness for the 127 students sent home as well as those who remained on campus.<br />
<br />
As previously stated, many of the party's attendees were athletes. This highlighted longstanding tensions between athletes and non-athletes at Williams. Many non-athletes decried the athletes' supposed callousness and selfishness in attending large parties despite restrictions. This relates to previous sentiments regarding athletes' privilege and social standing at Williams. For more information refer to the ''Record'' article by Kent Barbir, Stephanie Teng, and Katherine Yangto: [https://williamsrecord.com/456140/sports/wood-party-rekindles-debate-on-athlete-culture/| Wood Party Rekindles Debate on Athletic Culture]. <ref>[https://williamsrecord.com/456326/opinions/in-defense-of-williams-athletics/| In Defense of Williams Athletics]</ref><br />
<br />
Students also responded negatively to the college's use of WiFi data—viewing it as a violation of privacy.<ref>[https://williamsrecord.com/456803/opinions/wifi-data-surveillance-a-threat-to-students-privacy-rights/| WiFi Data Surveillance a Threat to Students' Privacy Rights]</ref></div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_Club_Volleyball&diff=23913Williams Club Volleyball2021-09-26T15:20:13Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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<div>{{Group|<br />
| name =Williams Club Volleyball<br />
| type =Sports<br />
| selective =No<br />
| membership =Coed<br />
| meeting-time =<br />
| meeting-place =<br />
| office =<br />
| contact-name =Hisham Tadfie<br />
| contact-unix =HT6<br />
| wso-listserver =<br />
| oit-listserver =<br />
| Instagram =@wcclubvolleyball<br />
| established =1805<br />
}}<br />
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Club Volleyball is the best club sport at Williams. The team is geared to all skill levels, with players of varying degrees of experience practicing on a regular basis and the club's best players traveling to tournaments. <br />
<br />
Club Volleyball is a co-ed sport, though it does practice and play tournaments on a regulation men's net. Because Williams does not have a Men's varsity program the club team represents the highest competitive volleyball team on campus for Men. <br />
<br />
For more info contact Hisham Tadfie '23 (ht6)<br />
<br />
<br />
==Team History==<br />
<br />
The travel team is said to have started the trend of NECVL teams "Tebowing" after aces during the 2012 season.<br />
<br />
NECVL Championships (2012, 2010); NECVL Division II South Champions (2012); NECVL Inter-Divisional Champions (2012)<br />
<br />
Rivals: Southern Vermont (DIII), SCSU (NECVL DII), Bryant (NECVL DII), Holy Cross (NECVL DII), Yale (NECVL DI), Stanford (DI), Penn State (DI),<br />
<br />
Allies: Fairfield (NECVL DII), CCRI (NECVL DII), USC (DI), Rice (NCVF), SMU (NCVF)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Team Traditions/Sponsors==<br />
<br />
Chick-Fil-A: Official Postgame Restaurant<br />
<br />
Dunkin Donuts: Official Breakfast Restaurant<br />
<br />
José Cuervo: Official Net Sponsor<br />
<br />
Patron: Official Tequila<br />
<br />
King Cone/ Kripsy Kones: Official Ice Cream Restaurants<br />
<br />
Baba Louie's (Pittsfield): Official Organic Wood-fired Sourdough Pizza Restaurant</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Williams_Club_Volleyball&diff=23912Williams Club Volleyball2021-09-26T15:19:37Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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<div>{{Group|<br />
| name =Williams Club Volleyball<br />
| type =Sports<br />
| selective =No<br />
| membership =Coed<br />
| meeting-time =<br />
| meeting-place =<br />
| office =<br />
| contact-name =Hisham Tadfie<br />
| contact-unix =HT6<br />
| wso-listserver =<br />
| oit-listserver =<br />
| Instagram =@wcclubvolleyball<br />
| established =1805<br />
}}<br />
<br />
Club Volleyball is the best club sport at Williams. The team is geared to all skill levels, with players of varying degrees of experience practicing on a regular basis and the club's best players traveling to tournaments. <br />
<br />
Club Volleyball is a co-ed sport, though it does practice and play tournaments on a regulation men's net. Because Williams does not have a Men's varsity program the club team represents the highest competitive volleyball team on campus for Men. <br />
<br />
For more info contact Hisham Tadfie '23 (ht6)<br />
<br />
<br />
Team History:<br />
<br />
The travel team is said to have started the trend of NECVL teams "Tebowing" after aces during the 2012 season.<br />
<br />
NECVL Championships (2012, 2010); NECVL Division II South Champions (2012); NECVL Inter-Divisional Champions (2012)<br />
<br />
Rivals: Southern Vermont (DIII), SCSU (NECVL DII), Bryant (NECVL DII), Holy Cross (NECVL DII), Yale (NECVL DI), Stanford (DI), Penn State (DI),<br />
<br />
Allies: Fairfield (NECVL DII), CCRI (NECVL DII), USC (DI), Rice (NCVF), SMU (NCVF)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Team Traditions/Sponsors:<br />
<br />
Chick-Fil-A: Official Postgame Restaurant<br />
<br />
Dunkin Donuts: Official Breakfast Restaurant<br />
<br />
José Cuervo: Official Net Sponsor<br />
<br />
Patron: Official Tequila<br />
<br />
King Cone/ Kripsy Kones: Official Ice Cream Restaurants<br />
<br />
Baba Louie's (Pittsfield): Official Organic Wood-fired Sourdough Pizza Restaurant</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Sage_Hall&diff=23911Sage Hall2021-09-26T15:11:01Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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<div>[[Category:Student Housing 2.0]]<br />
Sage Hall, a freshman dormitory, was completed during the latter part of 1923. It it located on the south side of the [[Frosh Quad]], across from [[Williams Hall]].<br />
<br />
Some like to say that all Halls are created equal. This is objectively untrue when the Halls in question are those of Sage and "Willy." In this case, the former far exceeds the latter.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
Sage Hall was constructed in 1923 as a mirror image of Williams Hall. It is a Georgian style building designed by Ralph Adams Cram. The building is named after Mrs. Russell Sage<br />
<br />
==Interior==<br />
<br />
The primary difference between Sage and Willy is the flooring: Sage Hall's rooms consist of either linoleum or carpeting, while Willy has hardwood floors and the occasional carpeted room. There is a common room for every 5 or 6 students and a bathroom for every 10 or so. Bathrooms are coed. Sage consists of singles and doubles. <br />
<br />
==Student Life==<br />
<br />
Sage is the closest dorm to [[Paresky]] and very centrally located on campus. Even if some of its rooms are a little cramped, access to common rooms makes up for the occasional lack of space. Students often move their desks into their common rooms.<br />
<br />
Parties in Sage are affectionately refered to as "Sagers" and take place in students' common rooms or sometimes even in the basement of the building.</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Sage_Hall&diff=23910Sage Hall2021-09-26T15:10:55Z<p>Wps3: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:Student Housing 2.0]]<br />
<br />
Sage Hall, a freshman dormitory, was completed during the latter part of 1923. It it located on the south side of the [[Frosh Quad]], across from [[Williams Hall]].<br />
<br />
Some like to say that all Halls are created equal. This is objectively untrue when the Halls in question are those of Sage and "Willy." In this case, the former far exceeds the latter.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
Sage Hall was constructed in 1923 as a mirror image of Williams Hall. It is a Georgian style building designed by Ralph Adams Cram. The building is named after Mrs. Russell Sage<br />
<br />
==Interior==<br />
<br />
The primary difference between Sage and Willy is the flooring: Sage Hall's rooms consist of either linoleum or carpeting, while Willy has hardwood floors and the occasional carpeted room. There is a common room for every 5 or 6 students and a bathroom for every 10 or so. Bathrooms are coed. Sage consists of singles and doubles. <br />
<br />
==Student Life==<br />
<br />
Sage is the closest dorm to [[Paresky]] and very centrally located on campus. Even if some of its rooms are a little cramped, access to common rooms makes up for the occasional lack of space. Students often move their desks into their common rooms.<br />
<br />
Parties in Sage are affectionately refered to as "Sagers" and take place in students' common rooms or sometimes even in the basement of the building.</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Sage_Hall&diff=23909Sage Hall2021-09-26T15:10:46Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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<div>[[Category:Student Housing 2.0]]<br />
{{stub}}<br />
<br />
Sage Hall, a freshman dormitory, was completed during the latter part of 1923. It it located on the south side of the [[Frosh Quad]], across from [[Williams Hall]].<br />
<br />
Some like to say that all Halls are created equal. This is objectively untrue when the Halls in question are those of Sage and "Willy." In this case, the former far exceeds the latter.<br />
<br />
==History==<br />
<br />
Sage Hall was constructed in 1923 as a mirror image of Williams Hall. It is a Georgian style building designed by Ralph Adams Cram. The building is named after Mrs. Russell Sage<br />
<br />
==Interior==<br />
<br />
The primary difference between Sage and Willy is the flooring: Sage Hall's rooms consist of either linoleum or carpeting, while Willy has hardwood floors and the occasional carpeted room. There is a common room for every 5 or 6 students and a bathroom for every 10 or so. Bathrooms are coed. Sage consists of singles and doubles. <br />
<br />
==Student Life==<br />
<br />
Sage is the closest dorm to [[Paresky]] and very centrally located on campus. Even if some of its rooms are a little cramped, access to common rooms makes up for the occasional lack of space. Students often move their desks into their common rooms.<br />
<br />
Parties in Sage are affectionately refered to as "Sagers" and take place in students' common rooms or sometimes even in the basement of the building.</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Campus_controversies&diff=23908Campus controversies2021-09-26T15:00:16Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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<div><br />
[[Category:History]]<br />
This page lists titles and brief descriptions of the controversies that have torn this campus. If an event will be discussed in a dedicated page, please make the heading here a link to that page.<br />
<br />
==2021==<br />
===[[Wood House Party]]===<br />
During the Covid restriction era of Spring 2021, 127 students were removed from campus after attending a party in [[Wood House]]. For more information refer to the [[Wood House Party]] wiki.<br />
==2019==<br />
=== WIFI (Williams Initiative for Israel) ===<br />
In April of 2019, College Council voted against recognizing WIFI as an officially registered student organization, believing that the group may support Israeli statehood in a way that also supported human rights abuses and the occupation against Palestine. WIFI is the first club in over a decade that complied with all of the College Council bylaws for recognition but did not gain RSO status.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/05/cc-rejects-williams-initiative-for-israel/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Green Love Controversy ===<br />
In the days leading up to the start of spring semester, two professors (Kai Green '07 and Kimberly Love) canceled their courses and spent a semester on medical leave in order to protest the college's institutional "violent practices," "transphobia," and "anti-blackness."<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/02/professors-cancel-courses-cite-colleges-violent-practices-anti-blackness-and-transphobia/ here].<br />
<br />
=== Affinity Housing ===<br />
<br />
Recently, students have been advocating for living spaces of affinity around a common identity as a response to increasing feelings of "tokenization and isolation" that Williams' current housing options fail to address.<br />
<br />
CARE Now (Coalition Against Racist Education Now) published a demand calling for the establishment of "affinity housing for Black students and all other marginalized groups" to create safe spaces, with tremendous support and backing from the Black Student Union. Arguments against this demand included the fear that affinity housing may promote further isolation and work against the idea of an integrated community.<br />
<br />
In response to this series of events, Williams College has been a subject of conversation on many news networks and websites.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/push-for-affinity-housing-builds/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Chicago Free Speech Statement Controversy ===<br />
The Williams College administration has been grappling with how to adjudicate issues of free speech and expression, and there has been discussion and debate about adopting the principles of the free speech policy statement initially originating from the University of Chicago.<br />
<br />
In response to a faculty petition on the Chicago Principles, a student and opposing faculty run counter-petition began to circulate around as well, leading President Maud Mandel to announce the formation of an ad hoc committee on inquiry and inclusion. For more information on this subject, please reference the following articles:<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2018/12/on-the-chicago-statement-recognizing-nuance-and-encouraging-collaborative-conversations-around-expression-2/ "On the Chicago Statement: Recognizing nuance and encouraging collaborative conversations around expression" by the Williams Record Editorial Board]<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/students-faculty-spar-over-free-speech-speaker-invitations/ "Students, faculty spar over free speech, speaker invitations"]<br />
<br />
[https://thefeministwire.com/2018/11/a-collective-student-response-to-the-chicago-statement/ "A Collective Student Response to the "Chicago Statement"]<br />
<br />
==2006==<br />
<br />
=== [[Talk:Campus_controversies|Willipedia Campus Controversies Controversy]]=== <br />
<br />
After the debut of the Williams Students Online Wiki, 'Willipedia', students and alumni debate the merits of publicly displaying emails and other information relating to past campus controversies.<br />
<br />
=== Impact of athletics ===<br />
<br />
How [[:Category:Athletics|athletics]] affect [[:Category:Academics|academic]] and social life at Williams has been an issue of perennial public debate. At the second to last [[College Council]] meeting of the year, 5/3/2006, the topic of what next year's [[CUL]] should discuss was raised. The impact of athletics on Williams was a possibility which was hotly debated in council. The [[Record]] learned of the debate and published an editorial in their last issue which inflamed a large portion of the campus. ([http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=opinion&id=7987])The article drew a strong correlation between athletes, destructive behavior, and the suffocation of academics and non-athletic social activities. In particular the editorial cited [[athletic tip|tipped]] athletes as particularly problematic, and perhaps undeserving of admission to the college. The editorial sparked a heated debate, much of which focused on the journalistic integrity of the editorial and the fact that it had been inserted into the last issue of the year, thus offering no opportunity for rebuttal. There are no current plans for [[CUL]] or any other body to discuss the effect of athletics, especially in light of the thorough examination the topic recieved in 2004. For that repot, click [http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/athletic_report.htm here].<br />
<br />
==2005==<br />
<br />
=== [[Anchor housing|Anchor Housing]] === <br />
Debate over new system of residential life devised by the [[CUL]] to replace [[free agency]] reaches a crucial point, and all sectors of Williams from the administration, to the students, to the trustees enter the debate over the future of residential life at Williams. Student opponents of the system organize themselves as [[Anchors Away]]. See the [[Anchor housing#History|History]] and [[Anchor housing#Student Opinion|Student Opinion]] sections of the main article.<br />
<br />
==2004==<br />
<br />
=== [[Kechley Krazy Kookout]] ===<br />
<br />
A flyer for the [[music]] department's annual spring cook-out at Professor David Kechley's house used the title "Kechley Krazy Kookout" and highlighted the initials KKK. Many found the initials (identical to those of the Ku Klux Klan) offensive and insensitive.<br />
<br />
=== [[Private:Art Department Racial Slur Incident|Art Department Racial Slur Incident]] ===<br />
<br />
A [[studio art]] professor using the n word at a department meeting in Spring 2004 was the spark for a number of events of campus-wide publicity that together can rightly be called a scandal.<br />
<br />
==2003==<br />
<br />
=== [[Queer Bash Email Incident]] ===<br />
<br />
An email sent by Nate Winstanley '04 on behalf of the [[Queer Student Union]] (QSU) to all-campus to publicize the fall 2003 [[Queer Bash]] drew vehemently disapproving emails from two first-year students. When the text became public it was a spark for campus-wide discussions on homophobia and how insensitive speech should be handled at Williams.<br />
<br />
==1962==<br />
<br />
=== [[Elimination of fraternities]] ===<br />
<br />
Responding to growing concerns about the role of fraternities at Williams, the college chose to eliminate the fraternity system, over the protests of many students and alumni.<br />
<br />
==1958==<br />
<br />
=== [[Coffin House Shooting]] ===<br />
<br />
One night in April 1958, a shotgun blast destroyed the window on the family home of William Sloane Coffin, the College Chaplain. Because Coffin was an outspoken opponent of fraternities, the police investigation focused on student members. Eventually, two students in Delta Kappa Epsilon came forward and confessed. They were fined by the town and expelled by the College.</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Campus_controversies&diff=23907Campus controversies2021-09-26T14:57:09Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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<div>{{outdated}}<br />
[[Category:History]]<br />
This page lists titles and brief descriptions of the controversies that have torn this campus. If an event will be discussed in a dedicated page, please make the heading here a link to that page.<br />
<br />
==2021==<br />
===[[Wood House Party]]===<br />
During the Covid restriction era of Spring 2021, 127 students were removed from campus after attending a party in [[Wood House]]. For more information refer to the [[Wood House Party]] wiki.<br />
==2019==<br />
=== WIFI (Williams Initiative for Israel) ===<br />
In April of 2019, College Council voted against recognizing WIFI as an officially registered student organization, believing that the group may support Israeli statehood in a way that also supported human rights abuses and the occupation against Palestine. WIFI is the first club in over a decade that complied with all of the College Council bylaws for recognition but did not gain RSO status.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/05/cc-rejects-williams-initiative-for-israel/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Green Love Controversy ===<br />
In the days leading up to the start of spring semester, two professors (Kai Green '07 and Kimberly Love) canceled their courses and spent a semester on medical leave in order to protest the college's institutional "violent practices," "transphobia," and "anti-blackness."<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/02/professors-cancel-courses-cite-colleges-violent-practices-anti-blackness-and-transphobia/ here].<br />
<br />
=== Affinity Housing ===<br />
<br />
Recently, students have been advocating for living spaces of affinity around a common identity as a response to increasing feelings of "tokenization and isolation" that Williams' current housing options fail to address.<br />
<br />
CARE Now (Coalition Against Racist Education Now) published a demand calling for the establishment of "affinity housing for Black students and all other marginalized groups" to create safe spaces, with tremendous support and backing from the Black Student Union. Arguments against this demand included the fear that affinity housing may promote further isolation and work against the idea of an integrated community.<br />
<br />
In response to this series of events, Williams College has been a subject of conversation on many news networks and websites.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/push-for-affinity-housing-builds/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Chicago Free Speech Statement Controversy ===<br />
The Williams College administration has been grappling with how to adjudicate issues of free speech and expression, and there has been discussion and debate about adopting the principles of the free speech policy statement initially originating from the University of Chicago.<br />
<br />
In response to a faculty petition on the Chicago Principles, a student and opposing faculty run counter-petition began to circulate around as well, leading President Maud Mandel to announce the formation of an ad hoc committee on inquiry and inclusion. For more information on this subject, please reference the following articles:<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2018/12/on-the-chicago-statement-recognizing-nuance-and-encouraging-collaborative-conversations-around-expression-2/ "On the Chicago Statement: Recognizing nuance and encouraging collaborative conversations around expression" by the Williams Record Editorial Board]<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/students-faculty-spar-over-free-speech-speaker-invitations/ "Students, faculty spar over free speech, speaker invitations"]<br />
<br />
[https://thefeministwire.com/2018/11/a-collective-student-response-to-the-chicago-statement/ "A Collective Student Response to the "Chicago Statement"]<br />
<br />
==2006==<br />
<br />
=== [[Talk:Campus_controversies|Willipedia Campus Controversies Controversy]]=== <br />
<br />
After the debut of the Williams Students Online Wiki, 'Willipedia', students and alumni debate the merits of publicly displaying emails and other information relating to past campus controversies.<br />
<br />
=== Impact of athletics ===<br />
<br />
How [[:Category:Athletics|athletics]] affect [[:Category:Academics|academic]] and social life at Williams has been an issue of perennial public debate. At the second to last [[College Council]] meeting of the year, 5/3/2006, the topic of what next year's [[CUL]] should discuss was raised. The impact of athletics on Williams was a possibility which was hotly debated in council. The [[Record]] learned of the debate and published an editorial in their last issue which inflamed a large portion of the campus. ([http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=opinion&id=7987])The article drew a strong correlation between athletes, destructive behavior, and the suffocation of academics and non-athletic social activities. In particular the editorial cited [[athletic tip|tipped]] athletes as particularly problematic, and perhaps undeserving of admission to the college. The editorial sparked a heated debate, much of which focused on the journalistic integrity of the editorial and the fact that it had been inserted into the last issue of the year, thus offering no opportunity for rebuttal. There are no current plans for [[CUL]] or any other body to discuss the effect of athletics, especially in light of the thorough examination the topic recieved in 2004. For that repot, click [http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/athletic_report.htm here].<br />
<br />
==2005==<br />
<br />
=== [[Anchor housing|Anchor Housing]] === <br />
Debate over new system of residential life devised by the [[CUL]] to replace [[free agency]] reaches a crucial point, and all sectors of Williams from the administration, to the students, to the trustees enter the debate over the future of residential life at Williams. Student opponents of the system organize themselves as [[Anchors Away]]. See the [[Anchor housing#History|History]] and [[Anchor housing#Student Opinion|Student Opinion]] sections of the main article.<br />
<br />
==2004==<br />
<br />
=== [[Kechley Krazy Kookout]] ===<br />
<br />
A flyer for the [[music]] department's annual spring cook-out at Professor David Kechley's house used the title "Kechley Krazy Kookout" and highlighted the initials KKK. Many found the initials (identical to those of the Ku Klux Klan) offensive and insensitive.<br />
<br />
=== [[Private:Art Department Racial Slur Incident|Art Department Racial Slur Incident]] ===<br />
<br />
A [[studio art]] professor using the n word at a department meeting in Spring 2004 was the spark for a number of events of campus-wide publicity that together can rightly be called a scandal.<br />
<br />
==2003==<br />
<br />
=== [[Queer Bash Email Incident]] ===<br />
<br />
An email sent by Nate Winstanley '04 on behalf of the [[Queer Student Union]] (QSU) to all-campus to publicize the fall 2003 [[Queer Bash]] drew vehemently disapproving emails from two first-year students. When the text became public it was a spark for campus-wide discussions on homophobia and how insensitive speech should be handled at Williams.<br />
<br />
==1962==<br />
<br />
=== [[Elimination of fraternities]] ===<br />
<br />
Responding to growing concerns about the role of fraternities at Williams, the college chose to eliminate the fraternity system, over the protests of many students and alumni.<br />
<br />
==1958==<br />
<br />
=== [[Coffin House Shooting]] ===<br />
<br />
One night in April 1958, a shotgun blast destroyed the window on the family home of William Sloane Coffin, the College Chaplain. Because Coffin was an outspoken opponent of fraternities, the police investigation focused on student members. Eventually, two students in Delta Kappa Epsilon came forward and confessed. They were fined by the town and expelled by the College.</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Campus_controversies&diff=23906Campus controversies2021-09-26T14:56:48Z<p>Wps3: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{in progress}}<br />
[[Category:History]]<br />
This page lists titles and brief descriptions of the controversies that have torn this campus. If an event will be discussed in a dedicated page, please make the heading here a link to that page.<br />
<br />
==2021==<br />
===[[Wood House Party]]===<br />
During the Covid restriction era of Spring 2021, 127 students were removed from campus after attending a party in [[Wood House]]. For more information refer to the [[Wood House Party]] wiki.<br />
==2019==<br />
=== WIFI (Williams Initiative for Israel) ===<br />
In April of 2019, College Council voted against recognizing WIFI as an officially registered student organization, believing that the group may support Israeli statehood in a way that also supported human rights abuses and the occupation against Palestine. WIFI is the first club in over a decade that complied with all of the College Council bylaws for recognition but did not gain RSO status.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/05/cc-rejects-williams-initiative-for-israel/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Green Love Controversy ===<br />
In the days leading up to the start of spring semester, two professors (Kai Green '07 and Kimberly Love) canceled their courses and spent a semester on medical leave in order to protest the college's institutional "violent practices," "transphobia," and "anti-blackness."<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/02/professors-cancel-courses-cite-colleges-violent-practices-anti-blackness-and-transphobia/ here].<br />
<br />
=== Affinity Housing ===<br />
<br />
Recently, students have been advocating for living spaces of affinity around a common identity as a response to increasing feelings of "tokenization and isolation" that Williams' current housing options fail to address.<br />
<br />
CARE Now (Coalition Against Racist Education Now) published a demand calling for the establishment of "affinity housing for Black students and all other marginalized groups" to create safe spaces, with tremendous support and backing from the Black Student Union. Arguments against this demand included the fear that affinity housing may promote further isolation and work against the idea of an integrated community.<br />
<br />
In response to this series of events, Williams College has been a subject of conversation on many news networks and websites.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/push-for-affinity-housing-builds/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Chicago Free Speech Statement Controversy ===<br />
The Williams College administration has been grappling with how to adjudicate issues of free speech and expression, and there has been discussion and debate about adopting the principles of the free speech policy statement initially originating from the University of Chicago.<br />
<br />
In response to a faculty petition on the Chicago Principles, a student and opposing faculty run counter-petition began to circulate around as well, leading President Maud Mandel to announce the formation of an ad hoc committee on inquiry and inclusion. For more information on this subject, please reference the following articles:<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2018/12/on-the-chicago-statement-recognizing-nuance-and-encouraging-collaborative-conversations-around-expression-2/ "On the Chicago Statement: Recognizing nuance and encouraging collaborative conversations around expression" by the Williams Record Editorial Board]<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/students-faculty-spar-over-free-speech-speaker-invitations/ "Students, faculty spar over free speech, speaker invitations"]<br />
<br />
[https://thefeministwire.com/2018/11/a-collective-student-response-to-the-chicago-statement/ "A Collective Student Response to the "Chicago Statement"]<br />
<br />
==2006==<br />
<br />
=== [[Talk:Campus_controversies|Willipedia Campus Controversies Controversy]]=== <br />
<br />
After the debut of the Williams Students Online Wiki, 'Willipedia', students and alumni debate the merits of publicly displaying emails and other information relating to past campus controversies.<br />
<br />
=== Impact of athletics ===<br />
<br />
How [[:Category:Athletics|athletics]] affect [[:Category:Academics|academic]] and social life at Williams has been an issue of perennial public debate. At the second to last [[College Council]] meeting of the year, 5/3/2006, the topic of what next year's [[CUL]] should discuss was raised. The impact of athletics on Williams was a possibility which was hotly debated in council. The [[Record]] learned of the debate and published an editorial in their last issue which inflamed a large portion of the campus. ([http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=opinion&id=7987])The article drew a strong correlation between athletes, destructive behavior, and the suffocation of academics and non-athletic social activities. In particular the editorial cited [[athletic tip|tipped]] athletes as particularly problematic, and perhaps undeserving of admission to the college. The editorial sparked a heated debate, much of which focused on the journalistic integrity of the editorial and the fact that it had been inserted into the last issue of the year, thus offering no opportunity for rebuttal. There are no current plans for [[CUL]] or any other body to discuss the effect of athletics, especially in light of the thorough examination the topic recieved in 2004. For that repot, click [http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/athletic_report.htm here].<br />
<br />
==2005==<br />
<br />
=== [[Anchor housing|Anchor Housing]] === <br />
Debate over new system of residential life devised by the [[CUL]] to replace [[free agency]] reaches a crucial point, and all sectors of Williams from the administration, to the students, to the trustees enter the debate over the future of residential life at Williams. Student opponents of the system organize themselves as [[Anchors Away]]. See the [[Anchor housing#History|History]] and [[Anchor housing#Student Opinion|Student Opinion]] sections of the main article.<br />
<br />
==2004==<br />
<br />
=== [[Kechley Krazy Kookout]] ===<br />
<br />
A flyer for the [[music]] department's annual spring cook-out at Professor David Kechley's house used the title "Kechley Krazy Kookout" and highlighted the initials KKK. Many found the initials (identical to those of the Ku Klux Klan) offensive and insensitive.<br />
<br />
=== [[Private:Art Department Racial Slur Incident|Art Department Racial Slur Incident]] ===<br />
<br />
A [[studio art]] professor using the n word at a department meeting in Spring 2004 was the spark for a number of events of campus-wide publicity that together can rightly be called a scandal.<br />
<br />
==2003==<br />
<br />
=== [[Queer Bash Email Incident]] ===<br />
<br />
An email sent by Nate Winstanley '04 on behalf of the [[Queer Student Union]] (QSU) to all-campus to publicize the fall 2003 [[Queer Bash]] drew vehemently disapproving emails from two first-year students. When the text became public it was a spark for campus-wide discussions on homophobia and how insensitive speech should be handled at Williams.<br />
<br />
==1962==<br />
<br />
=== [[Elimination of fraternities]] ===<br />
<br />
Responding to growing concerns about the role of fraternities at Williams, the college chose to eliminate the fraternity system, over the protests of many students and alumni.<br />
<br />
==1958==<br />
<br />
=== [[Coffin House Shooting]] ===<br />
<br />
One night in April 1958, a shotgun blast destroyed the window on the family home of William Sloane Coffin, the College Chaplain. Because Coffin was an outspoken opponent of fraternities, the police investigation focused on student members. Eventually, two students in Delta Kappa Epsilon came forward and confessed. They were fined by the town and expelled by the College.</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Campus_controversies&diff=23905Campus controversies2021-09-26T14:53:17Z<p>Wps3: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Incomplete}}<br />
[[Category:History]]<br />
This page lists titles and brief descriptions of the controversies that have torn this campus. If an event will be discussed in a dedicated page, please make the heading here a link to that page.<br />
<br />
==2021==<br />
===[[Wood House Party]]===<br />
During the Covid restriction era of Spring 2021, 127 students were removed from campus after attending a party in [[Wood House]]. For more information refer to the [[Wood House Party]] wiki.<br />
==2019==<br />
=== WIFI (Williams Initiative for Israel) ===<br />
In April of 2019, College Council voted against recognizing WIFI as an officially registered student organization, believing that the group may support Israeli statehood in a way that also supported human rights abuses and the occupation against Palestine. WIFI is the first club in over a decade that complied with all of the College Council bylaws for recognition but did not gain RSO status.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/05/cc-rejects-williams-initiative-for-israel/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Green Love Controversy ===<br />
In the days leading up to the start of spring semester, two professors (Kai Green '07 and Kimberly Love) canceled their courses and spent a semester on medical leave in order to protest the college's institutional "violent practices," "transphobia," and "anti-blackness."<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/02/professors-cancel-courses-cite-colleges-violent-practices-anti-blackness-and-transphobia/ here].<br />
<br />
=== Affinity Housing ===<br />
<br />
Recently, students have been advocating for living spaces of affinity around a common identity as a response to increasing feelings of "tokenization and isolation" that Williams' current housing options fail to address.<br />
<br />
CARE Now (Coalition Against Racist Education Now) published a demand calling for the establishment of "affinity housing for Black students and all other marginalized groups" to create safe spaces, with tremendous support and backing from the Black Student Union. Arguments against this demand included the fear that affinity housing may promote further isolation and work against the idea of an integrated community.<br />
<br />
In response to this series of events, Williams College has been a subject of conversation on many news networks and websites.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/push-for-affinity-housing-builds/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Chicago Free Speech Statement Controversy ===<br />
The Williams College administration has been grappling with how to adjudicate issues of free speech and expression, and there has been discussion and debate about adopting the principles of the free speech policy statement initially originating from the University of Chicago.<br />
<br />
In response to a faculty petition on the Chicago Principles, a student and opposing faculty run counter-petition began to circulate around as well, leading President Maud Mandel to announce the formation of an ad hoc committee on inquiry and inclusion. For more information on this subject, please reference the following articles:<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2018/12/on-the-chicago-statement-recognizing-nuance-and-encouraging-collaborative-conversations-around-expression-2/ "On the Chicago Statement: Recognizing nuance and encouraging collaborative conversations around expression" by the Williams Record Editorial Board]<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/students-faculty-spar-over-free-speech-speaker-invitations/ "Students, faculty spar over free speech, speaker invitations"]<br />
<br />
[https://thefeministwire.com/2018/11/a-collective-student-response-to-the-chicago-statement/ "A Collective Student Response to the "Chicago Statement"]<br />
<br />
==2006==<br />
<br />
=== [[Talk:Campus_controversies|Willipedia Campus Controversies Controversy]]=== <br />
<br />
After the debut of the Williams Students Online Wiki, 'Willipedia', students and alumni debate the merits of publicly displaying emails and other information relating to past campus controversies.<br />
<br />
=== Impact of athletics ===<br />
<br />
How [[:Category:Athletics|athletics]] affect [[:Category:Academics|academic]] and social life at Williams has been an issue of perennial public debate. At the second to last [[College Council]] meeting of the year, 5/3/2006, the topic of what next year's [[CUL]] should discuss was raised. The impact of athletics on Williams was a possibility which was hotly debated in council. The [[Record]] learned of the debate and published an editorial in their last issue which inflamed a large portion of the campus. ([http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=opinion&id=7987])The article drew a strong correlation between athletes, destructive behavior, and the suffocation of academics and non-athletic social activities. In particular the editorial cited [[athletic tip|tipped]] athletes as particularly problematic, and perhaps undeserving of admission to the college. The editorial sparked a heated debate, much of which focused on the journalistic integrity of the editorial and the fact that it had been inserted into the last issue of the year, thus offering no opportunity for rebuttal. There are no current plans for [[CUL]] or any other body to discuss the effect of athletics, especially in light of the thorough examination the topic recieved in 2004. For that repot, click [http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/athletic_report.htm here].<br />
<br />
==2005==<br />
<br />
=== [[Anchor housing|Anchor Housing]] === <br />
Debate over new system of residential life devised by the [[CUL]] to replace [[free agency]] reaches a crucial point, and all sectors of Williams from the administration, to the students, to the trustees enter the debate over the future of residential life at Williams. Student opponents of the system organize themselves as [[Anchors Away]]. See the [[Anchor housing#History|History]] and [[Anchor housing#Student Opinion|Student Opinion]] sections of the main article.<br />
<br />
==2004==<br />
<br />
=== [[Kechley Krazy Kookout]] ===<br />
<br />
A flyer for the [[music]] department's annual spring cook-out at Professor David Kechley's house used the title "Kechley Krazy Kookout" and highlighted the initials KKK. Many found the initials (identical to those of the Ku Klux Klan) offensive and insensitive.<br />
<br />
=== [[Private:Art Department Racial Slur Incident|Art Department Racial Slur Incident]] ===<br />
<br />
A [[studio art]] professor using the n word at a department meeting in Spring 2004 was the spark for a number of events of campus-wide publicity that together can rightly be called a scandal.<br />
<br />
==2003==<br />
<br />
=== [[Queer Bash Email Incident]] ===<br />
<br />
An email sent by Nate Winstanley '04 on behalf of the [[Queer Student Union]] (QSU) to all-campus to publicize the fall 2003 [[Queer Bash]] drew vehemently disapproving emails from two first-year students. When the text became public it was a spark for campus-wide discussions on homophobia and how insensitive speech should be handled at Williams.<br />
<br />
==1962==<br />
<br />
=== [[Elimination of fraternities]] ===<br />
<br />
Responding to growing concerns about the role of fraternities at Williams, the college chose to eliminate the fraternity system, over the protests of many students and alumni.<br />
<br />
==1958==<br />
<br />
=== [[Coffin House Shooting]] ===<br />
<br />
One night in April 1958, a shotgun blast destroyed the window on the family home of William Sloane Coffin, the College Chaplain. Because Coffin was an outspoken opponent of fraternities, the police investigation focused on student members. Eventually, two students in Delta Kappa Epsilon came forward and confessed. They were fined by the town and expelled by the College.</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Campus_controversies&diff=23904Campus controversies2021-09-26T14:51:01Z<p>Wps3: /* Art Department Racial Slur Incident */</p>
<hr />
<div>{{Outdated}}<br />
[[Category:History]]<br />
This page lists titles and brief descriptions of the controversies that have torn this campus. If an event will be discussed in a dedicated page, please make the heading here a link to that page.<br />
<br />
==2021==<br />
===[[Wood House Party]]===<br />
During the Covid restriction era of Spring 2021, 127 students were removed from campus after attending a party in [[Wood House]]. For more information refer to the [[Wood House Party]] wiki.<br />
==2019==<br />
=== WIFI (Williams Initiative for Israel) ===<br />
In April of 2019, College Council voted against recognizing WIFI as an officially registered student organization, believing that the group may support Israeli statehood in a way that also supported human rights abuses and the occupation against Palestine. WIFI is the first club in over a decade that complied with all of the College Council bylaws for recognition but did not gain RSO status.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/05/cc-rejects-williams-initiative-for-israel/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Green Love Controversy ===<br />
In the days leading up to the start of spring semester, two professors (Kai Green '07 and Kimberly Love) canceled their courses and spent a semester on medical leave in order to protest the college's institutional "violent practices," "transphobia," and "anti-blackness."<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/02/professors-cancel-courses-cite-colleges-violent-practices-anti-blackness-and-transphobia/ here].<br />
<br />
=== Affinity Housing ===<br />
<br />
Recently, students have been advocating for living spaces of affinity around a common identity as a response to increasing feelings of "tokenization and isolation" that Williams' current housing options fail to address.<br />
<br />
CARE Now (Coalition Against Racist Education Now) published a demand calling for the establishment of "affinity housing for Black students and all other marginalized groups" to create safe spaces, with tremendous support and backing from the Black Student Union. Arguments against this demand included the fear that affinity housing may promote further isolation and work against the idea of an integrated community.<br />
<br />
In response to this series of events, Williams College has been a subject of conversation on many news networks and websites.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/push-for-affinity-housing-builds/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Chicago Free Speech Statement Controversy ===<br />
The Williams College administration has been grappling with how to adjudicate issues of free speech and expression, and there has been discussion and debate about adopting the principles of the free speech policy statement initially originating from the University of Chicago.<br />
<br />
In response to a faculty petition on the Chicago Principles, a student and opposing faculty run counter-petition began to circulate around as well, leading President Maud Mandel to announce the formation of an ad hoc committee on inquiry and inclusion. For more information on this subject, please reference the following articles:<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2018/12/on-the-chicago-statement-recognizing-nuance-and-encouraging-collaborative-conversations-around-expression-2/ "On the Chicago Statement: Recognizing nuance and encouraging collaborative conversations around expression" by the Williams Record Editorial Board]<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/students-faculty-spar-over-free-speech-speaker-invitations/ "Students, faculty spar over free speech, speaker invitations"]<br />
<br />
[https://thefeministwire.com/2018/11/a-collective-student-response-to-the-chicago-statement/ "A Collective Student Response to the "Chicago Statement"]<br />
<br />
==2006==<br />
<br />
=== [[Talk:Campus_controversies|Willipedia Campus Controversies Controversy]]=== <br />
<br />
After the debut of the Williams Students Online Wiki, 'Willipedia', students and alumni debate the merits of publicly displaying emails and other information relating to past campus controversies.<br />
<br />
=== Impact of athletics ===<br />
<br />
How [[:Category:Athletics|athletics]] affect [[:Category:Academics|academic]] and social life at Williams has been an issue of perennial public debate. At the second to last [[College Council]] meeting of the year, 5/3/2006, the topic of what next year's [[CUL]] should discuss was raised. The impact of athletics on Williams was a possibility which was hotly debated in council. The [[Record]] learned of the debate and published an editorial in their last issue which inflamed a large portion of the campus. ([http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=opinion&id=7987])The article drew a strong correlation between athletes, destructive behavior, and the suffocation of academics and non-athletic social activities. In particular the editorial cited [[athletic tip|tipped]] athletes as particularly problematic, and perhaps undeserving of admission to the college. The editorial sparked a heated debate, much of which focused on the journalistic integrity of the editorial and the fact that it had been inserted into the last issue of the year, thus offering no opportunity for rebuttal. There are no current plans for [[CUL]] or any other body to discuss the effect of athletics, especially in light of the thorough examination the topic recieved in 2004. For that repot, click [http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/athletic_report.htm here].<br />
<br />
==2005==<br />
<br />
=== [[Anchor housing|Anchor Housing]] === <br />
Debate over new system of residential life devised by the [[CUL]] to replace [[free agency]] reaches a crucial point, and all sectors of Williams from the administration, to the students, to the trustees enter the debate over the future of residential life at Williams. Student opponents of the system organize themselves as [[Anchors Away]]. See the [[Anchor housing#History|History]] and [[Anchor housing#Student Opinion|Student Opinion]] sections of the main article.<br />
<br />
==2004==<br />
<br />
=== [[Kechley Krazy Kookout]] ===<br />
<br />
A flyer for the [[music]] department's annual spring cook-out at Professor David Kechley's house used the title "Kechley Krazy Kookout" and highlighted the initials KKK. Many found the initials (identical to those of the Ku Klux Klan) offensive and insensitive.<br />
<br />
=== [[Private:Art Department Racial Slur Incident|Art Department Racial Slur Incident]] ===<br />
<br />
A [[studio art]] professor using the n word at a department meeting in Spring 2004 was the spark for a number of events of campus-wide publicity that together can rightly be called a scandal.<br />
<br />
==2003==<br />
<br />
=== [[Queer Bash Email Incident]] ===<br />
<br />
An email sent by Nate Winstanley '04 on behalf of the [[Queer Student Union]] (QSU) to all-campus to publicize the fall 2003 [[Queer Bash]] drew vehemently disapproving emails from two first-year students. When the text became public it was a spark for campus-wide discussions on homophobia and how insensitive speech should be handled at Williams.<br />
<br />
==1962==<br />
<br />
=== [[Elimination of fraternities]] ===<br />
<br />
Responding to growing concerns about the role of fraternities at Williams, the college chose to eliminate the fraternity system, over the protests of many students and alumni.<br />
<br />
==1958==<br />
<br />
=== [[Coffin House Shooting]] ===<br />
<br />
One night in April 1958, a shotgun blast destroyed the window on the family home of William Sloane Coffin, the College Chaplain. Because Coffin was an outspoken opponent of fraternities, the police investigation focused on student members. Eventually, two students in Delta Kappa Epsilon came forward and confessed. They were fined by the town and expelled by the College.</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Campus_controversies&diff=23903Campus controversies2021-09-26T14:48:59Z<p>Wps3: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{Outdated}}<br />
[[Category:History]]<br />
This page lists titles and brief descriptions of the controversies that have torn this campus. If an event will be discussed in a dedicated page, please make the heading here a link to that page.<br />
<br />
==2021==<br />
===[[Wood House Party]]===<br />
During the Covid restriction era of Spring 2021, 127 students were removed from campus after attending a party in [[Wood House]]. For more information refer to the [[Wood House Party]] wiki.<br />
==2019==<br />
=== WIFI (Williams Initiative for Israel) ===<br />
In April of 2019, College Council voted against recognizing WIFI as an officially registered student organization, believing that the group may support Israeli statehood in a way that also supported human rights abuses and the occupation against Palestine. WIFI is the first club in over a decade that complied with all of the College Council bylaws for recognition but did not gain RSO status.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/05/cc-rejects-williams-initiative-for-israel/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Green Love Controversy ===<br />
In the days leading up to the start of spring semester, two professors (Kai Green '07 and Kimberly Love) canceled their courses and spent a semester on medical leave in order to protest the college's institutional "violent practices," "transphobia," and "anti-blackness."<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/02/professors-cancel-courses-cite-colleges-violent-practices-anti-blackness-and-transphobia/ here].<br />
<br />
=== Affinity Housing ===<br />
<br />
Recently, students have been advocating for living spaces of affinity around a common identity as a response to increasing feelings of "tokenization and isolation" that Williams' current housing options fail to address.<br />
<br />
CARE Now (Coalition Against Racist Education Now) published a demand calling for the establishment of "affinity housing for Black students and all other marginalized groups" to create safe spaces, with tremendous support and backing from the Black Student Union. Arguments against this demand included the fear that affinity housing may promote further isolation and work against the idea of an integrated community.<br />
<br />
In response to this series of events, Williams College has been a subject of conversation on many news networks and websites.<br />
<br />
For more information, click [https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/push-for-affinity-housing-builds/ here].<br />
<br />
=== The Chicago Free Speech Statement Controversy ===<br />
The Williams College administration has been grappling with how to adjudicate issues of free speech and expression, and there has been discussion and debate about adopting the principles of the free speech policy statement initially originating from the University of Chicago.<br />
<br />
In response to a faculty petition on the Chicago Principles, a student and opposing faculty run counter-petition began to circulate around as well, leading President Maud Mandel to announce the formation of an ad hoc committee on inquiry and inclusion. For more information on this subject, please reference the following articles:<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2018/12/on-the-chicago-statement-recognizing-nuance-and-encouraging-collaborative-conversations-around-expression-2/ "On the Chicago Statement: Recognizing nuance and encouraging collaborative conversations around expression" by the Williams Record Editorial Board]<br />
<br />
[https://williamsrecord.com/2019/04/students-faculty-spar-over-free-speech-speaker-invitations/ "Students, faculty spar over free speech, speaker invitations"]<br />
<br />
[https://thefeministwire.com/2018/11/a-collective-student-response-to-the-chicago-statement/ "A Collective Student Response to the "Chicago Statement"]<br />
<br />
==2006==<br />
<br />
=== [[Talk:Campus_controversies|Willipedia Campus Controversies Controversy]]=== <br />
<br />
After the debut of the Williams Students Online Wiki, 'Willipedia', students and alumni debate the merits of publicly displaying emails and other information relating to past campus controversies.<br />
<br />
=== Impact of athletics ===<br />
<br />
How [[:Category:Athletics|athletics]] affect [[:Category:Academics|academic]] and social life at Williams has been an issue of perennial public debate. At the second to last [[College Council]] meeting of the year, 5/3/2006, the topic of what next year's [[CUL]] should discuss was raised. The impact of athletics on Williams was a possibility which was hotly debated in council. The [[Record]] learned of the debate and published an editorial in their last issue which inflamed a large portion of the campus. ([http://www.williamsrecord.com/wr/?view=article&section=opinion&id=7987])The article drew a strong correlation between athletes, destructive behavior, and the suffocation of academics and non-athletic social activities. In particular the editorial cited [[athletic tip|tipped]] athletes as particularly problematic, and perhaps undeserving of admission to the college. The editorial sparked a heated debate, much of which focused on the journalistic integrity of the editorial and the fact that it had been inserted into the last issue of the year, thus offering no opportunity for rebuttal. There are no current plans for [[CUL]] or any other body to discuss the effect of athletics, especially in light of the thorough examination the topic recieved in 2004. For that repot, click [http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/athletic_report.htm here].<br />
<br />
==2005==<br />
<br />
=== [[Anchor housing|Anchor Housing]] === <br />
Debate over new system of residential life devised by the [[CUL]] to replace [[free agency]] reaches a crucial point, and all sectors of Williams from the administration, to the students, to the trustees enter the debate over the future of residential life at Williams. Student opponents of the system organize themselves as [[Anchors Away]]. See the [[Anchor housing#History|History]] and [[Anchor housing#Student Opinion|Student Opinion]] sections of the main article.<br />
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==2004==<br />
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=== [[Kechley Krazy Kookout]] ===<br />
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A flyer for the [[music]] department's annual spring cook-out at Professor David Kechley's house used the title "Kechley Krazy Kookout" and highlighted the initials KKK. Many found the initials (identical to those of the Ku Klux Klan) offensive and insensitive.<br />
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=== [[Private:Art Department Racial Slur Incident|Art Department Racial Slur Incident]] ===<br />
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A comment using the term "nigger" made by a [[studio art]] professor at a department meeting in Spring 2004 was the spark for a number of events of campus-wide publicity and importance that, together, are probably rightly called a scandal.<br />
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==2003==<br />
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=== [[Queer Bash Email Incident]] ===<br />
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An email sent by Nate Winstanley '04 on behalf of the [[Queer Student Union]] (QSU) to all-campus to publicize the fall 2003 [[Queer Bash]] drew vehemently disapproving emails from two first-year students. When the text became public it was a spark for campus-wide discussions on homophobia and how insensitive speech should be handled at Williams.<br />
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==1962==<br />
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=== [[Elimination of fraternities]] ===<br />
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Responding to growing concerns about the role of fraternities at Williams, the college chose to eliminate the fraternity system, over the protests of many students and alumni.<br />
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==1958==<br />
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=== [[Coffin House Shooting]] ===<br />
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One night in April 1958, a shotgun blast destroyed the window on the family home of William Sloane Coffin, the College Chaplain. Because Coffin was an outspoken opponent of fraternities, the police investigation focused on student members. Eventually, two students in Delta Kappa Epsilon came forward and confessed. They were fined by the town and expelled by the College.</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Quote_board&diff=23902Quote board2021-09-26T14:41:58Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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[[Category:Guides]][[Category:Advice]][[Category:Williamspeak]]<br />
Quote boards are found in entry common rooms, usually highlighting funny things that people said throughout the year.<br />
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Here on Willipedia, we are trying to create our very own quote board, compiling a master list of some of students' best quotes. <br />
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Please add to the list, avoid anything too explicit, and share you and your friends' immense wisdom.<br />
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==Willipedia Quote Board==<br />
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"Here's what you should do. Just go in the music lab - people in there don't wake up - and just take their kidneys." Steven Ai '18<br />
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"Being bi is tough because it’s all the attractive people who remind you how lonely you are." — Emily White '19<br />
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"Less is more when it comes to holes" — Anonymous<br />
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"Kyrjistan was the first country to ever lose their constitution. They literally misplaced it." — Ben Baily '22<br />
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"Nobody can die before I get in my grad school applications. Then they can die all they want." — Anonymous<br />
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"That's the thing about anarchy, there aren't even sign up sheets." — Anonymous<br />
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"'Adult Sorry' is just alcohol." — Anonymous<br />
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"I had a craving for deep fried oreo crusted chicken."<br />
"That's why you got kicked out of the Garden of Eden, Ben. That's original sin right there." — Anonymous<br />
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"What's the weirdest thing you've ever spilled on yourself? Mine was 16 snails." — Anonymous<br />
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"I don't think there's a such thing as 'lowkey' necrosis." — Anonymous<br />
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"I don't know that I want to be THAT rich or THAT famous, just enough to buy unlimited kit kats." — Anonymous<br />
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"Daylight savings is just legally time traveling." — Anonymous<br />
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"I will be right back, assuming that I don't lose the will to return along the way." — Sebastian Black '19<br />
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"Hot take: the Incredibles 2 was about sodomy." — Aidan Dunkelberg '22<br />
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"I miss the excitement of being lit on fire." — Anonymous<br />
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"Sometimes I just cackle at the amount of irrelevant problems people think real in this world of horror" — Anonymous<br />
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"I think you should lose a point on the Rice Purity Test just for having a Venmo" — Anonymous<br />
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"I don't actually bust nuts in the sound booth...'cause then you guys would get an allergic reaction" — Anonymous<br />
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"I didn't fail No Nut November, because it's October 37th." — Anonymous<br />
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"Oh man, Calvin Coolidge's reelection really turned everyone off." — Anonymous<br />
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"All I want in life is for Starbursts to sell full bags that are just the strawberry banana flavor." — Anonymous<br />
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"My pussy created Amazon." — Anonymous</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Quote_board&diff=23901Quote board2021-09-26T14:39:59Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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[[Category:Guides]][[Category:Advice]][[Category:Williamspeak]]<br />
Quote boards are found in entry common rooms, usually highlighting funny things that people said throughout the year.<br />
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Here on Willipedia, we are trying to create our very own quote board, compiling a master list of some of the best quotes said by students. Please add to this list, avoid anything too explicit, and share you and your friends' immense wisdom from over the years.<br />
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==Willipedia Quote Board==<br />
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"Here's what you should do. Just go in the music lab - people in there don't wake up - and just take their kidneys." Steven Ai '18<br />
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"Being bi is tough because it’s all the attractive people who remind you how lonely you are." — Emily White '19<br />
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"Less is more when it comes to holes" — Anonymous<br />
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"Kyrjistan was the first country to ever lose their constitution. They literally misplaced it." — Ben Baily '22<br />
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"Nobody can die before I get in my grad school applications. Then they can die all they want." — Anonymous<br />
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"That's the thing about anarchy, there aren't even sign up sheets." — Anonymous<br />
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"'Adult Sorry' is just alcohol." — Anonymous<br />
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"I had a craving for deep fried oreo crusted chicken."<br />
"That's why you got kicked out of the Garden of Eden, Ben. That's original sin right there." — Anonymous<br />
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"What's the weirdest thing you've ever spilled on yourself? Mine was 16 snails." — Anonymous<br />
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"I don't think there's a such thing as 'lowkey' necrosis." — Anonymous<br />
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"I don't know that I want to be THAT rich or THAT famous, just enough to buy unlimited kit kats." — Anonymous<br />
<br />
"Daylight savings is just legally time traveling." — Anonymous<br />
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"I will be right back, assuming that I don't lose the will to return along the way." — Sebastian Black '19<br />
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"Hot take: the Incredibles 2 was about sodomy." — Aidan Dunkelberg '22<br />
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"I miss the excitement of being lit on fire." — Anonymous<br />
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"Sometimes I just cackle at the amount of irrelevant problems people think real in this world of horror" — Anonymous<br />
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"I think you should lose a point on the Rice Purity Test just for having a Venmo" — Anonymous<br />
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"I don't actually bust nuts in the sound booth...'cause then you guys would get an allergic reaction" — Anonymous<br />
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"I didn't fail No Nut November, because it's October 37th." — Anonymous<br />
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"Oh man, Calvin Coolidge's reelection really turned everyone off." — Anonymous<br />
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"All I want in life is for Starbursts to sell full bags that are just the strawberry banana flavor." — Anonymous<br />
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"My pussy created Amazon." — Anonymous</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Moocho_Macho_Moocow_Military_Marching_Band&diff=23900Moocho Macho Moocow Military Marching Band2021-09-26T14:35:24Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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{{Group|<br />
| name = Moocho Macho Moocow Military Marching Band<br />
| type = Arts<br />
| selective = No<br />
| membership = 0<br />
| meeting-time = 1x weekly during fall semester; 2x on game weeks<br />
| meeting-place = [[Shapiro Hall]]<br />
| office = The Band Closet<br />
| contact-name = Jessica Luning<br />
| contact-unix = jl9<br />
| wso-listserver = moocow<br />
| website = http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/moocow/<br />
| established = the dawn of time (er, post WWII by Prof. Irwin Shainman)- 2017<br />
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The Williams College Moocho Macho Moocow Military Marching Band was composed of roughly 25-30 musicians who meet weekly each fall in preparation for home and/or away [[football]] games. The band operated from sometime post WW2 until Spring 2017, but Alum continue to carry the spirit of the band. <br />
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==Old Description==<br />
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These musicians have varying musical abilities and experiences allowing fledgling musicians the opportunity to play alongside and learn from those with more experience, which bridges the gap between the novice and other Williams [[music]] organizations. Although marching bands at other schools are limited to wind instrumentalists, the Williams Band honors equal opportunity and welcomes all instruments, such as violin and string bass, and even features vocalists in the plastic section, kazoos. Each week, under the direction of two caped student leaders, the Williams Band parades down [[Spring Street]] carrying with them the Williams Competitive Spirit to all home football games, opens the game with the Star Spangled Banner, performs an original [[halftime show]] and intersperses witty cheers along with rousing melodies throughout the game. Overall, the Williams Band prides itself in enthusiasm and musicianship while '''HAVING FUN!'''<br />
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Contact Jessica Luning (jl9) or Austin Paul (ajp1) for more info or to join. Also, check out the band's [http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/moocow/ website].<br />
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Rehearsal are held Mondays from 7-8 and Fridays from 4:00-5:00 during football season. The Band also plays at several basketball games during Winter Study.<br />
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==[http://wso.williams.edu/~aramos/bandhistory/preface.shtml Band Mythology]==<br />
===Conditions before the Band came to be===<br />
In the beginning, there was no band at Williams. The school's few students, too dispirited to wander outside into the shoulder-high drifts, huddled around the dull fires that smoldered in [[West College]]'s fireplaces. They suffered from malnutrition; no one had invented an ID-[[card reader]], and the students could not use their [[dinner points]]. The creatures of darkness scratched at West College's thin brick walls. In the cellar, Elijah.I.Berman struggled to set up [[Colrain]].<br />
===Emilus and Magilus===<br />
One snow-covered winter, a Priestess of the Order of Ephiram gave birth to twins, who eventually came to be known as Emilus and Magilus. The people of Williams were horrified, for the Pristesses of Ephiram had vowed to remain chaste. The [[President]] of the College, perhaps attempting to hide evidence of his involvement, ordered a few fellows from [[Buildings and Grounds|B&G]] to throw the twins into the [[Hoosic River]], which was then in flood. However, the men were afraid, and they left Emilus and Magilus in the shallows of the flooded fields that bordered the main channel. The waters quickly receeded, and the babies were deposited on the drying ground.<br />
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A [[The Cow|purple cow]] came upon Emilus and Magilus, and suckled the two babies. A shepherd discovered the three, took the babies off to his rude hut, and raised them. The twins became quite musically proficent. Emilus even learned to play the viola, but she set it aside in favor of the kazoo because she wanted more respect.<br />
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===The early years of the Band===<br />
Emilus and Magilus attracted much attention as they wandered about Williamstown, tending their sheep. One fine April day, with Zepherus blowing softly and flowers budding all about the countryside, the twins were watching their flock just above the [[hairpin curve|Hairpin Curve]]. They spotted a raiding party from [[Amherst]] swarming down the road. (The warriors hoped to steal a card catalog so that they could find books in their library -- a collection which they had taken from Williams.) Emilus and Magilus drove their flock into the road; the knot of sheep delayed the raiders while the twins hurried off to warn Williamstown. Today, the cult of the [[Elizabethans]] honors the brave sheep.<br />
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The President of the College realized that he needed to defend his tranquil realm. Acting with great wisdom, he formed the Williams Band, a group which would protect the College using such fearsome weapons as Sousaphones, piccolos, and snare drums. He placed Emilus and Magilus in command of this organization. The twins won many victories and made the Band feared throughout the NESCAC.<br />
===[[Mr. C]] arrives===<br />
Many years later, Emilus and Magilus wandered off to the west, where they settled, and founded a small clan. They left the Band under the capable leadership of the legendary Mr. C. "Tough as an armadillo," Mr. C proved to be an outstanding Band Director, with a mind honed by many years of paddleball and [[golf]]. The other bands in the NESCAC shriveled and disappeared, having been repeatedly humiliated by Williams. Under student leader Moody, the [[Wesleyan]] Band put up a tremendous resistance; it fell after Moody graduated. Williams Band gained a hegemony over the conference, and has won the New England Division III Marching Band Championship for thirty-six consecutive years.<br />
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===The last Moocow?===<br />
An unfortunate series of events befell the Band starting in the Fall of 2017. Several members quit. The senior leader left the College. Recruitment was poor. The Band was only able to operate because Chris "Two-Quatah" Caproni (Mr. C) was able to levy high-schoolers from Drury to fill the Band's ranks.<br />
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Then, in the fall of 2018, Mr. C did not return. To replace him, Ashley Paradis was selected. But by that point, the Band had only three student members. Then two. Then one.<br />
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The alums returned for Homecoming, as they always do. A sextet performed (which included the legendary Denny Blagden '62) which was met with cheers. The Band hasn't performed since. Professor Ed Gollin, Chair of the Music Department, is poised to restart the Marching Band. But until then, I am the last Moocow. - [[Jra5]]</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Mission_Park&diff=23899Mission Park2021-09-25T21:54:52Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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Mission Park consists of 4 houses put together to form one huge ugly award-winning concrete monstrosity. The 4 houses are [[Armstrong House|Armstrong]], [[Pratt House|Pratt]], [[Mills House|Mills]] and [[Dennett House|Dennett]]. It looks like a dungeon (or parking garage, depending on whom you ask) from the inside, a cinder block from the outside, and (reportedly) a phoenix from above. However, since the [[Summer 2003]] renovations, it's extremely nice on the inside, featuring large, well furnished lounges for every four hallways, and general lounges on the ground floor with two televisions, two pool tables, and an old but still awesome foosball table. Many people also think Mission is attractive from the outside, especially when you are walking down mission hill and can see Mission Park with the mountains in the background. The effect can be quite stunning.<br />
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The complex's class make-up has changed over the years. When it was initially built in the early 1970's, it had a mix of sophomores, juniors, and seniors. From the 1980's until Spring 2006, the vast majority of Mission was sophomore housing; since Fall 2006, Mission has been exclusively first-year housing. <br />
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[[Relationships]] between residents of [[West College]] and Mission Park are considered long-distance relationships.<br />
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==History==<br />
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{{Williams College Archives|url=http://www.williams.edu/library/archives/buildinghistories/missionpark/contents.html}}<br />
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Twelve years after the incorporation of Williams College in 1793, the Second Great Awakening spread from its origins in Connecticut to Williamstown, Massachusetts. Enlightenment ideals from France were gradually being countered by an increase in religious fervor, first in the town, and then in the College. In the spring of 1806, [[Samuel J. Mills]], the twenty-three year old son of a Connecticut clergyman, joined the Freshman class. Mills, after a period of religious questioning in his late teens, entered Williams with a passion to spread Christianity around the globe.<br />
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On a sultry Saturday afternoon in August, 1806, Mills and four other students gathered as usual in the maple grove of Sloan's Meadow for one of their twice-weekly prayer meetings. Thunderclouds broke open the sky, driving the students to seek shelter from the rain on the lee side of a great haystack. With thought turned toward their classroom studies of Asia and the East India Company, Mills shared his burden that Christianity be sent abroad. With the exception of Harvey Loomis, who felt that missionary efforts should first be concentrated domestically, Mills, Byram Green, Francis L. Robbins, and James Richards prayed that American missions would spread Christianity through the East.<br />
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In 1808, Mills and other Williams students formed "The Brethren," a society organized to "effect, in the persons of its members, a mission to the heathen." Upon the enrollment of Mills and Richards at Andover Seminary in 1810, Adoniram Judson from Brown, Samuel Newall from Harvard, and Samuel Nott from Union College joined the Brethren. Led by the enthusiasm of Judson, the young seminarians convinced the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts to form The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1810. In February, 1812, Rev. and Mrs. Judson, Rev. and Mrs. Newall, Rev. and Mrs. Nott, Rev. Gordon Hall, and Rev. Luther Rice were commissioned as the Board's first missionaries and set sail for Calcutta, India.<br />
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Though only two of the five Williams students at the Haystack Prayer meeting ever left the United States, the impact of their passion for missions is widespread. Loomis, true to his early convictions, dedicated his life to domestic missions in the State of Maine. Robbins engaged in missionary work in New Hampshire before returning to pastor a church in his native state of Connecticut. Green preached for a short time before serving in New York State government and later in the U.S. Congress. Richards left America in 1815, serving as a missionary in India until his death in 1822. Mills engaged in missions in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, in the Southwest United States, and in New Orleans. He influenced the founding of the American Bible Society and the United Foreign Missionary Society before he died in 1818 while returning from a short-term mission trip to Africa with the American Colonization Society.<br />
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In 1854, the Hon. Byram Green returned to Williamstown and marked the location of the haystack next to which he had prayed forty-eight years earlier. Interest in the site peaked and in 1855 a group of Williams College alumni purchased a ten-acre tract of land to commemorate the Haystack Prayer meeting. In 1857, Williams President [[Mark Hopkins]] and two other alumni, Professor [[Albert Hopkins]] and Charles Stoddard, incorporated the Mission Park Association for the purpose of "improving the grounds...and of erecting and placing thereon suitable monuments and other memorials, to commemorate the origin and progress of American Missions." The park was deeded in trust to Williams College in 1885.<br />
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After visiting Williamstown in August, 1866, the Hon. Harvey Rice (Williams Class of 1824) elected to donate the funds to "erect a monument of some kind, on the sacred spot in Mission Park" that Green had marked more than a decade earlier. The twelve-foot tall marble monument, quarried and crafted in the Berkshires, was dedicated by President Mark Hopkins following the Baccalaureate Discourse on Sunday, July 28, 1867. The monument, approved by the Faculty and Trustees of the College, mounts a globe three feet in diameter and proclaims, "The Field is the World." Beneath this inscription is a similitude of the haystack and the names of the five students who sought its shelter while in prayer.<br />
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Though the original intent was to "embellish the Park with specimens of the trees and shrubs and flowers of every foreign land to which missionaries have been sent" as can be acclimated to the New England weather, this vision never fully materialized. The most dramatic addition to the landscape of the Park was the 1969 construction of the "Mission Park" dormitory. Though the bulk of the building lies on adjacent lands, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted permission for the eastern and westernmost wings to extend into the Park provided the dormitory be given a name of commemorative significance. To that end, "Mission Park" includes four houses named after Mills (Class of 1809) and fellow Williams alumni [[Samuel Armstrong]] (1862), [[James Pratt]] (1898), and [[Tyler Dennett]] (1904)</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Wood_House_Party&diff=23898Wood House Party2021-09-25T21:50:34Z<p>Wps3: Created page with "Category:Guides Category:History The infamous Wood House party (also known simply as Wood) was an unmasked gathering of ~100 students in Wood House on February 26..."</p>
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The infamous [[Wood House]] party (also known simply as Wood) was an unmasked gathering of ~100 students in Wood House on February 26, 2021. This party resulted in 127 students being sent home to complete the rest of the semester virtually.<ref>[https://williamsrecord.com/456133/news/college-removes-127-students-from-campus-in-response-to-party/| College Removes 127 Students From Campus in Response to Party]</ref><br />
[[Image:WoodHouse.jpg|right|thumbnail|Wood House]]<br />
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==The Party==<br />
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The Wood party was one of several unmasked indoor gatherings during the 20-21 academic year, but it is notable for its size and ensuing disciplinary action. Wood consisted of a collection of separate parties that coalesced into one event. The main party of 80-100 students was on Wood's bottom floor, but many of the students sent home were attending smaller gatherings on the building's other floors.<br />
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It's important to note that many of the party's attendees were athletes.<br />
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==The School's Response==<br />
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===The Night Of===<br />
Williams's first response to the Wood party was to send a CSS officer to break it up. Students fled the scene once the officer arrived, and CSS initially made no attempt to gather information regarding the party's attendees.<br />
===Maud's Email===<br />
The day after the party, President [[Maud Mandel]] sent out an email to the College's students, faculty, and staff. Maud asked any students who attended the Wood party to come forward or face potential disciplinary action (including possible suspension).<br />
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To the chagrin of the student body, Maud also announced that because of the party, the planned loosening of Covid restrictions would be delayed.<ref>[https://williamsrecord.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Williams-College-Mail-Regarding-an-unsafe-party-on-campus-last-night.pdf| Maud's First Email]</ref><br />
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===The Investigation===<br />
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The school sought to fulfill its promise of disciplinary action against students who did not come forward, and CSS conducted a thorough investigation. Around 170 students were interviewed.<br />
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According to a quote obtained by the ''Record'', CSS used "access records, several witness statements, team rosters, numerous phone tips, [and] invites to the party."<br />
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Perhaps most controversially, the College used students' WiFi data to track their locations on campus the night of the party.<ref>[https://williamsrecord.com/456730/news/college-used-wifi-data-to-track-presence-at-wood-party-increases-css-patrols-in-dorms/| College Used WiFi Data to Track Presence at Wood party]</ref><br />
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==Student Response==<br />
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The party at Wood caused anger, resentment, and sadness for the 127 students sent home as well as those who remained on campus.<br />
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As previously stated, many of the party's attendees were athletes. This highlighted longstanding tensions between athletes and non-athletes at Williams. Many non-athletes decried the athletes' supposed callousness and selfishness in attending large parties despite restrictions. This relates to previous sentiments regarding athletes' privilege and social standing at Williams. For more information refer to the ''Record'' article by Kent Barbir, Stephanie Teng, and Katherine Yangto: [https://williamsrecord.com/456140/sports/wood-party-rekindles-debate-on-athlete-culture/| Wood Party Rekindles Debate on Athletic Culture]. <ref>[https://williamsrecord.com/456326/opinions/in-defense-of-williams-athletics/| In Defense of Williams Athletics]</ref><br />
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Students also responded negatively to the college's use of WiFi data—viewing it as a violation of privacy.<ref>[https://williamsrecord.com/456803/opinions/wifi-data-surveillance-a-threat-to-students-privacy-rights/| WiFi Data Surveillance a Threat to Students' Privacy Rights]</ref></div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=File:WoodHouse.jpg&diff=23897File:WoodHouse.jpg2021-09-25T19:57:37Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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[[Category:Dining]]<br />
Also known as [[Snar]]. When you need the food, they've got the goods. If you skipped dinner and are on any meal plan but the 50-a-semester, then you can spend up to $7.00 in dinner "equivalency." There are normally three main dining areas at Snar: Whitmans, '82 Grill, and Lee Snack Bar. '''For the 2021-22 school year Snar is only available from 9PM-1AM at Whitman's. <br />
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==Venues==<br />
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===Whitman's===<br />
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Offers hot dogs, chicken fingers, burgers, and some other junk food.<br />
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7 days, 9:00PM-1:00AM<br />
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==='''Not Available in the 21-22 Academic Year'''===<br />
==='82 Grill===<br />
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Offers homemade pizza cooked up fresh in a Woodstone oven, root beer on tap and hot pannini sandwiches.<br />
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7 days, 8:30PM-1:00AM<br />
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Saturday, 8:30PM-1:30AM<br />
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===Lee Snack Bar===<br />
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You can find hot or cold sandwiches, homemade gelato, and new healthier menu options. They do breakfast at snar.<br />
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7 days, 9:00PM-1:00AM<br />
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==History==<br />
The snack bar has taken many forms...<br />
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'''?-2004'''<br />
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The [[Baxter Hall]] location. Rustic? Dated? Irreplaceable!<br />
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'''2004-2007'''<br />
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[[Mission]]...'I'll never have to leave home again! ...Except maybe for class. Only maybe.'<br />
-Random sophomore. ('Sophomore 50,' anyone?)<br />
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'''2007-???'''<br />
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The Snack Bar is currently located in the Paresky Center ([[Whitman's Marketplace]] by day and Snack Bar by night.) New! Better? 'Baxter' who?<br />
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'''???-present'''<br />
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The Snack Bar is now expanded to include [[Whitman's Marketplace]], [[Lee Snack Bar]], and [[82 Grill]].<br />
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'''Old Utensils Description'''<br />
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"Currently, Snack Bar has new to-go utensils that perform much like plastic utensils in other places.<br />
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However, the 'plastic' utensils in the Snack Bar were once 100% biodegradable. That's pretty advanced. Unfortunately, they tended to melt easily. Students were sometimes surprised to find themselves spoonless after trying to eat some soup. And the cups were made out of corn! They burned a most awesome shade of blue-green..."<br />
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==Utensils==<br />
Snack Bar at Whitman's uses the same metal utensils and biodegradable utensil packs as all other meals.<br />
==Delivery==<br />
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During [[Winter Study]] and the first part of the Spring 2006 semester, [[Dining Services]] and the [[College Council]] sponsored a [[Snack Bar delivery]] service, but sadly the service has been on hiatus ever since.</div>Wps3https://wso.williams.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Snack_Bar&diff=23895Snack Bar2021-09-25T19:11:23Z<p>Wps3: </p>
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[[Category:Dining]]<br />
Also known as [[Snar]]. When you need the food, they've got the goods. If you skipped dinner and are on any meal plan but the 50-a-semester, then you can spend up to $7.00 in dinner "equivalency." There are normally three main dining areas at Snar: Whitmans, '82 Grill, and Lee Snack Bar. '''For the 2021-22 school year Snar is only available from 9PM-1AM at Whitman's. <br />
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==Venues==<br />
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===Whitman's===<br />
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Offers hot dogs, chicken fingers, burgers, and some other junk food.<br />
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7 days, 9:00PM-1:00AM<br />
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==='''Not Available in the 21-22 Academic Year'''===<br />
==='82 Grill===<br />
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Offers homemade pizza cooked up fresh in a Woodstone oven, root beer on tap and hot pannini sandwiches.<br />
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7 days, 8:30PM-1:00AM<br />
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Saturday, 8:30PM-1:30AM<br />
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===Lee Snack Bar===<br />
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You can find hot or cold sandwiches, homemade gelato, and new healthier menu options. They do breakfast at snar.<br />
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7 days, 9:00PM-1:00AM<br />
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==History==<br />
The snack bar has taken many forms...<br />
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'''?-2004'''<br />
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The [[Baxter Hall]] location. Rustic? Dated? Irreplaceable!<br />
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'''2004-2007'''<br />
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[[Mission]]...'I'll never have to leave home again! ...Except maybe for class. Only maybe.'<br />
-Random sophomore. ('Sophomore 50,' anyone?)<br />
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'''2007-???'''<br />
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The Snack Bar is currently located in the Paresky Center ([[Whitman's Marketplace]] by day and Snack Bar by night.) New! Better? 'Baxter' who?<br />
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'''???-present'''<br />
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The Snack Bar is now expanded to include [[Whitman's Marketplace]], [[Lee Snack Bar]], and [[82 Grill]].<br />
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'''Old Utensils Description'''<br />
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"Currently, Snack Bar has new to-go utensils that perform much like plastic utensils in other places.<br />
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However, the 'plastic' utensils in the Snack Bar were once 100% biodegradable. That's pretty advanced. Unfortunately, they tended to melt easily. Students were sometimes surprised to find themselves spoonless after trying to eat some soup. And the cups were made out of corn! They burned a most awesome shade of blue-green..."<br />
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==Utensils==<br />
Snack Bar at Whitman's uses the same metal utensils and biodegradable utensil packs as all other meals.<br />
==Delivery==<br />
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During [[Winter Study]] and the first part of the Spring 2006 semester, [[Dining Services]] and the [[College Council]] sponsored a [[Snack Bar delivery]] service, but sadly the service has been on hiatus ever since.</div>Wps3